Infinite Objective Reality in a Finite Idea: Why Should It Require an Infinite Cause?
(Hyperlinks are in magenta or underlined) 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 […]
Can Objective Reality Ever Be Formally Real with Grok 4.5?
Ring: Define and characterize what it means according to Descartes for X to have formal reality. Grok 4.5: 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. […]