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Objective Being Without Thought? The Case Against Milidrag’s Standing-Essence Interpretation

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(Hyperlinks are in magenta or underlined) A companion to “Can Objective Reality Exist Unthought? Milidrag, Intramental Essences, and Cartesian Mental Representation” Abstract Predrag Milidrag  offers a powerful interpretation of Descartes’s exchange in the First Replies with Caterus . (See Predrag Milidrag, “Katerus i Dekart o idejama, uzrokovanju i večnim istinama,” Theoria 55, no. 1 (2012): 45–69.) On Milidrag’s reconstruction, Descartes does not […]