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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description 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1283932025-01-28T07:08:26Z Chapter The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence Ben-Yami, Hanoch René Descartes representation geometry perception colour 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. 2023-11-29T05:26:13Z 2023-11-29T05:26:13Z 2023-11-27T17:12:23Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85593 9791221501698 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/128393 eng Knowledge and its Histories open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85593/1/38458.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/85593/1/38458.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221501698 17 Florence open access
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