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Convincing ChatGPT 4.0 (April 2023 version) that Cartesian secondary quality sensations (SQS) have no objectively real mental content – (Maybe it will convince you, too!)

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This person I am about to quote from Philosophy Stack Exchange has several confusions and does not sufficiently understand the distinction between objective and formal reality regarding the theory of ideas. What are these confusions and what should the person correctly understand about these concepts in Descartes’s theory of ideas? “Descartes seems to define an […]