Privations, Sensations, and Objective Reality: A Closer Look at Arnauld’s Misinterpretation of Descartes’s Ideas with ChatGPT 4o
In Descartes’s Fourth Objections, Antoine Arnauld argued that, as the objective reality in an idea is determined by what the idea presents to me, there can never be a materially false idea. Thus, Arnauld writes: “if cold is a privation, it cannot exist objectively in the intellect by means of an idea whose objective existence […]