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The Finite Idea of an Infinite God: Objective Reality, FROR, and the Failure of the Imperfect-OR Defense

Abstract This article develops and then qualifies what may be called the FROR thesis: when an occurrent Cartesian idea contains objectively real representational content, that content, insofar as it actually exists in the occurrent mental modification, possesses formal reality. The thesis initially appears compelling. An objectively real representation that is actually present in thought cannot […]