Chapter The Development of Descartes' Idea of Representation by Correspondence

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...

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Váldodahkki: Ben-Yami, Hanoch (auth)
Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
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Almmustuhtton: Florence Firenze University Press 2023
Ráidu:Knowledge and its Histories
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Čoahkkáigeassu: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.
Olgguldas hápmi:1 electronic resource (17 p.)
ISBN:979-12-215-0169-8.04
9791221501698
Beassan:Open Access