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The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
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Colour
Geometry
Perception
René Descartes
Representation
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
Geometry
Perception
René Descartes
Representation
General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27778
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.
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2023
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9791221501681
9791221501698
9791221501698
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10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04