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When Does Content in an Idea Have Objective Reality?

Abstract Discussions of Descartes’s theory of objective reality (OR) found in ideas often begin by asking which ideas possess it. That formulation is potentially misleading because it treats the whole idea or cognitive episode as the primary unit to which objective reality is assigned. A more precise analysis asks which content within a cognition, if […]