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A paper which looks at Descartes' distinctions between formal and objective reality, the nature of sensory impression and intuition, and the way in which he uses these arguments to prove the existence of God. This paper has 4 sources listed in the bibliography.
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in which objects appear in terms of sensory impression, and in the mind, and the distinction between interpretation of sensory data and the understanding of intuition. Formal reality is that
which can be perceived by the senses, and which is not the same as objective reality (objective in the sense of an object of thought, as opposed to a universal
concept). There is a difference, therefore, between an object as it is perceived in the real world of sensory impression, and the mental concept which we have of that object.
In addition, the way in which
we react to the sensory impressions of an object may not in themselves correspond to its objective reality, as he illustrates in his remarks about the piece of wax. Here,
he investigates the way in which one can deduce the reality of material objects, since the only way in which one can experience them is through the senses and he
has already demonstrated in the earlier Meditation that such experience can be potentially deceptive. The piece of wax, he states, can still be identified as wax even though it is
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely different from its original state in terms of physical properties.
Therefore, he asserts, one must have an intuitive knowledge of wax which is something immutable and unchanging, but transcends the observance of physical properties.
The idea of wax is not necessarily the same as the
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