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Nov 30, 2023 at 10:51 answer added Chris Degnen timeline score: 1
Nov 30, 2023 at 9:18 comment added Jo Wehler @MauroALLEGRANZA Concerning your comment in a nutshell: It seems like much ado about nothing: formal reality = the concept in the mind; objective reality = the referent of the concept in the external world. - Many thanks for your support with all your references - I will look them up; at least some of them :-)
Nov 30, 2023 at 9:06 comment added Mauro ALLEGRANZA And see Being, Formal versus Objective into The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon.
Nov 30, 2023 at 9:00 comment added Mauro ALLEGRANZA See also Descartes: Ideas and The Formal-Objective Reality Distinction: "When speaking of ideas as representing things to the mind, Descartes will refer to an idea’s objective reality. The objective reality of a thing is the kind of reality a thing possesses in virtue of its being a representation of something."
Nov 30, 2023 at 8:51 comment added Mauro ALLEGRANZA "scholastic" is not an easy topic... In a nutshell, an "idea" (concept) has "formal reality" when it is considered as a product of the mind (a "mental object") and has "objective reality" when it is considered wrt the object it represents. See Formal versus Objective Reality in Descartes.
Nov 30, 2023 at 7:06 comment added Conifold Descartes appropriated the concept of objective reality specifically from scholastic realism of Duns Scotus. Philosophy Major gives a detailed comparison of what it meant to the two of them.
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