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oapen-20.500.12657-855932023-11-28T03:33:45Z Chapter The Development of Descartes’ Idea of Representation by Correspondence Ben-Yami, Hanoch René Descartes representation geometry perception colour bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy 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. 2023-11-27T17:12:23Z 2023-11-27T17:12:23Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20231127_9791221501698_3 9791221501698 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/85593 eng Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 38458.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0169-8.4 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04 10.36253/979-12-215-0169-8.04 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221501698 1 17 Florence open access
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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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