Demarcating Descartes’s geometry with clarity and distinctness

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Moon, Stella S.
Demarcating Descartes’s geometry with clarity and distinctness.
Synthese. Roč. 202, č. 4 (2023), č. článku 123. ISSN 0039-7857. E-ISSN 1573-0964
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: epistemology * Descartes * clarity and distinctness * geometry * demarcation problem
Obor OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impakt faktor: 1.5, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04356-3

Descartes’s doctrine of clarity and distinctness states that whatever is clearly and distinctly perceived is true. This paper looks at his early doctrine from Rules for the Direction of the Mind, and its application to the demarcation problem of curves in Descartes’s Geometry. This paper offers and defends a novel account of the demarcation criterion of curves: a curve is geometrical just in case it is clearly and distinctly perceivable. This account connects Descartes’s rationalist epistemological programme with his ontological views about mathematics.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349992