Why Descartes’s “By Their Very Nature” Claim Does Not Apply to Every Cartesian Idea
(Hyperlinks are in magenta or underlined) Abstract Descartes’s claim that the objective mode of being belongs to ideas “by their very nature” appears to support a universal-objective-reality thesis: every Cartesian idea, simply because it is an idea, contains objectively real representational content (OR). That reading is too broad. The passage occurs inside the Third Meditation causal proof, where […]