Descartes’s Five Distinctions: formal/objective, material/objective, material/formal, eminent/formal, and material falsity/formal falsity
[NOTE: This page is unfinished and remains under construction.] Descartes makes many distinctions, especially about how to regard different aspects had by ideas. Amongst these, he distinguishes between formal reality/objective reality (fr/or), the material/objective (m/o), the material/formal (m/f), and between material falsity and formal falsity (mf/ff). If this wasn’t enough already with all the overlapping […]