 Further, it should be noted that inferential interpretations need not reject that the cogito counts also as an intuition. There’s no inconsistency in claiming a self-evident grasp of a proposition that has inferential structure. It is indeed widely held among philosophers that modus ponens is self-evident, yet it contains an inference. In short, that a statement contains an inference does not entail that one’s acceptance of it is grounded in inference – a fact applicable to the cogito. Curley helpfully notes that Descartes “consistently blurs the distinction between inferences and propositions by referring to the whole formula ‘I think, therefore I am’ as a truth, a first principle, a proposition, and a conclusion” (1978, 79). Kenny adds that, for Descartes, “what is from one point of view intuited is from another point of view deduced” (1968, 55), citing Rules 3 as support.