
Ep. 229: Descartes's Rules for Thinking (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Organ of Common Sensitivity
In the previous section where he's talking about different kinds of colors you could just use these three different figures of different sorts of arrangements of lines and categorize them as white blue and red I say that's just different shapes. The fancy is a genuine part of the body of sufficient size to allow its different parts to assume various figures and distinctness from each other. We must believe that the common sense has a function like that of a seal because it impresses on the fancy or imagination. In my translation it's fantasy or imagination but there's a footnote that the term fantasy is from the Latin fantasy, which for day cart frequently means the same as imagine asio.
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