Infinite Objective Reality in a Finite Idea: Why Should It Require an Infinite Cause?
Abstract Descartes’s Third Meditation argument commits him to a striking asymmetry in the significance of objective reality rank: the objective-reality rank of an idea’s internal representation does not determine the formal rank of the mental mode that bears it, yet allegedly imposes a corresponding lower bound upon the formal or eminent reality of its adequate […]
Can Objective Reality Ever Be Formally Real?
Define and characterize what it means according to Descartes for X to have formal reality. According to Descartes, for something (X) to have formal reality means that (X) exists or is actual. Formal reality (also called formal being or actual being) is the reality a thing possesses in virtue of its existing. It is the […]