Convincing ChatGPT (April 2023 version) that Descartes never had a distinct idea of a triangle
In Descartes’s theory of ideas, what does Descartes require for a mind to perceive something clearly? Why does Descartes believe, as he claims in the third paragraph of his Third Meditation, that: “But what was it about them that I perceived clearly [clare percipiebam]? Just that the ideas, or thoughts, [ideas, sive cogitationes] of such […]