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

(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 […]