Basics for understanding Descartes’s theory of ideas.
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“Thought, in Descartes’s wide sense of the word, covers any conscious mental states, including emotions, feelings, and sense perceptions, and it is also used coextensively
Bibliographic anchor Deborah Boyle , “Descartes’ Natural Light Reconsidered,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 37, no. 4 (October 1999): 601–12. John Morris,
By Justin Weinberg. September 10, 2025. In a post last month, we discussed the question, “How much use of AI in our research is acceptable?“ My
In René Descartes’s First Meditation, the meditator argues that there are some certainties even if here and now I am dreaming. The meditator claims even
By ‘axiom’ I mean a foundational commitment for the framework (i.e., framework principles) of Descartes’s theory of ideas, not necessarily a self-evident or indubitable
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Translated by ChatGPT 5.1 from Ukrainian into American English Sententiae 38:2 (2019), 112–115https://doi.org/10.22240/sent38.02.112ISSN 2075-6461. Sententiae, Volume 38, no. 2 (2019): 112–15. Oleg Khoma CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL
Summarizing Introduction by ChatGPT 5.1 This post examines René Descartes’s doctrine of simple natures and argues that his flagship corporeal simple nature—extension—fails on
