To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hobbes says understanding sense doesn't need logic but requires madness.
- In plain terms
- You do not need logic to understand sense, you need madness.
- What can you take from it?
- Sense understanding needs madness not logic.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is madness necessary to understand sense?
- Why is madness required?
Another view
It contradicts itself by using logic to claim madness is needed.
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