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Book — Chapter Two Tone

Chapter Two: Strict and Broad Ideas and the Scope of Objective Reality Introduction In the Third Meditation, Descartes states that the objective mode of being belongs to ideas by their own nature (AT VII 42; CSM II 29). Which ideas? If he means every thought he calls an idea, the statement supports the stronger thesis: […]