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Not every philosopher in Llull's time felt compelled to delineate
clearly a general method, follow it strictly and pretend this was
universal. This rather modern concept comprises Hilbert's
"effective procedure" idea, or Turing's machine algorithm, but
nothing of the sort existed before Descartes suggested the existence
and applicability of a universal "method" (1637). Though he
did in no way acknowledge his Lullian debt, Descartes -who knew
Llull's work well- did for philosophy what the Majorcan had
suggested for logical inquiry in general: establish a set of rules, if
possible permanent and universal, and follow them strictly.
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