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Critique of Norman Wells and Cecilia Wee on the material falsity of ideas

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What are Norman J. Wells’s positions on the material falsity of ideas and what are Cecilia Wee’s (no known photo) criticisms of his views on material falsity as told in the following quotations from Wee’s book Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations (Routledge, 2006), 21–24? Wee writes: “Wells argues that Descartes followed the late Scholastic […]