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Gaukroger (1992) Descartes's Early Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas

Gaukroger, Stephen (1992). Descartes's Early Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas. Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (4):585-602. Intuitus and the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas in the Early RegulaeOur first concern will be with the early Rules, dating from around 1620. Having established the unity of knowledge in Rule 1, Descartes sets out in Rule 2 the reasons we need a method if we are..

LoLordo (2005) ‘Descartes’s One Rule of Logic’: Gassendi’s Critique of the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Perception.

LoLordo, Antonia (2005). ‘Descartes’s One Rule of Logic’: Gassendi’s Critique of the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Perception. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (1):51 – 72. Because he estimates that the way to have true and appropriate cognition of things is not by exploring things through themselves and in themselves, but by the Intellect alone and depending on thoughts alone, ..

Gut (2020) The Epistemic Significance of Current Clear and Distinct Perceptions in Descartes’ Epistemology

Gut, Przemysław (2020). The Epistemic Significance of Current Clear and Distinct Perceptions in Descartes’ Epistemology. Roczniki Filozoficzne 68 (2):87-118. In recent literature, we can find two interpretations about the epistemic status and function of current clear and distinct perceptions in Descartes’ epistemology.The first one may be called the psychological interpretation. It states that ..

Markie (1979) Clear and distinct perception and metaphysical certainty

Markie, Peter (1979). Clear and distinct perception and metaphysical certainty. Mind 88 (349):97-104.1Recent commentators on Descartes have been concerned with clarifying the relationship between two important Cartesian concepts: clear and distinct perception and metaphysical certainty.It is generally agreed that to perceive a proposition clearly and distinctly is to apprehend it in a particular..

Nawar (2022) Clear and Distinct Perception in the Stoics, Augustine, and William of Ockham.

Nawar, Tamer (2022). Clear and Distinct Perception in the Stoics, Augustine, and William of Ockham. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 96 (1):185-207. There is a long history of philosophers attributing a privileged epistemic status to cognitive states seemingly caused by di rectly present objects.In this paper, I examine three such epistemic accounts prior to the better-known discussion..

Zhang (2019) Descartes and Husserl on “Clear and Distinct”

Zhang, Haojun (2019). Descartes and Husserl on “Clear and Distinct”. Husserl Studies 35 (1):51-72. The expression “clear and distinct” is used by Descartes and Husserl when they talk, respectively, about the truth of an idea and the evidence of judgment. Although for both authors the words “clear” and “distinct” are juxtaposed with the conjunction “and,” their status is not actually equal.For De..