• October 12, 2026
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Day: September 19, 2026

Why Descartes’s “By Their Very Nature” Claim Does Not Apply to Every Cartesian Idea — Astra

A double framed Nano Banana Pro graphic of a library titled “Why Descartes’s ‘By Their Very Nature’ Claim Does Not Apply to Every Cartesian Idea” contrasts a book of strict ideas showing objective reality representation with a book of broad ideas marked “no necessary objective reality,” with a Descartes bust at left, a thinking bust at right, and the DTOI URL below used as a visual aid for a section of the post.

(Hyperlinks are in magenta or underlined) Abstract Descartes’s claim that the objective mode of being belongs to ideas “by their very nature” (AT VII 42; CSM II 29) 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 […]