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Chapter The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence
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Ben-Yami, Hanoch

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 R…

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