ISBN:
9791221501698
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (17 p.)
Series Statement:
Knowledge and its Histories
Keywords:
Philosophy
Abstract:
Descartes was the first to hold that, when we perceive, the representation need not resemble what it represents but should correspond to it. Descartes developed this ground-breaking, influential conception in his work on analytic geometry and then transferred it to his theory of perception. I trace the development of the idea in Descartes’ early mathematical works; his articulation of it in Rules for the Direction of the Mind; his first suggestions there to apply this kind of representation-by-correspondence in the scientific inquiry of colours; and, finally, the transfer of the idea to the theory of perception in The World
Note:
English
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