Presentation Without Representation: Material Falsity, Availability of Ideational Content, and Internal/External Representation in Descartes
ABSTRACT Descartes’s claim that a materially false idea “represents a non-thing as a thing” (AT VII 43; CSM II 30) has long occasioned interpretative difficulty, particularly when applied to obscure and confused sensory ideas such as the sensation of cold. Standard interpretations attempt to preserve the representational character of such ideas by attributing to them […]