• October 12, 2026
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Day: June 26, 2026

The Core DTOI Argument: Sensations Without Cartesian Objective Reality

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The central claim I reject the widely assumed claim that every Cartesian idea, merely in virtue of being an idea, contains objectively real representational content (OR). That universal thesis is too strong. Descartes’s purely strict ideas contain objective reality because they internally represent something as the object of thought. By “objective reality representational content,” I […]