- Reading Descartes
- Edited by Andrea Strazzoni, Marco Sgarbi
The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
- Hanoch Ben-Yami
- © 2023 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04
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.
- Keywords:
- René Descartes,
- representation,
- geometry,
- perception,
- colour,
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Chapter Title
The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
Authors
Hanoch Ben-Yami
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English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04
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2023
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Book Title
Reading Descartes
Book Subtitle
Consciousness, Body, and Reasoning
Editors
Andrea Strazzoni, Marco Sgarbi
Peer Reviewed
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206
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2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
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10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8
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Knowledge and its Histories