Strict and Broad Ideas in DTOI
Introduction Descartes’s use of the word “idea” is undeniably non-univocal, but this ambiguity is not itself an overlooked feature of his theory. Modern Cartesian commentators have recognized that Descartes sometimes uses idea strictly for thoughts that are tanquam rerum imagines, “as it were the images of things” (AT VII 37; CSM II, 25) [I prefer “as […]