Category: Distinctions

Clear differences or aspects between two or more entities, concepts, or phenomena, often highlighting unique characteristics or defining features that set them apart from one another.

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Distinctions

Descartes’s Five Distinctions: formal/objective, material/objective, material/formal, eminent/formal, and material falsity/formal falsity

[NOTE: This page is unfinished and remains under construction.] Descartes makes many distinctions, especially about how to regard different aspects had by ideas. Amongst these,

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Object-Fixing Content and Objective Reality in Descartes: How Descartes Draws the Line Between Representation and Conscious Modes

January 31, 2026 No Comments

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Critical Analysis of Deborah Boyle’s “Descartes’ Natural Light Reconsidered” (1999) by ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking

January 17, 2026 No Comments

Ethics Guidelines by ChatGPT-5 for Using AI in Philosophical Research

January 15, 2026 No Comments

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Why the Evil Demon Cannot Deceive You About Apriori Truths with Deepseek R1 0528 and Claude Sonnet 4.5

January 14, 2026 No Comments