ABSTRACT
The previous chapters showed how an analysis of Cartesian false ideas casts light on important aspects of Cartesian error, such as the features that characterize a false idea, and how such false ideas relate to false judgements and error. Descartes’s much discussed views on sensations and their representation were also examined. In this chapter and the next, the focus is on another aspect of the Cartesian account of false ideas – namely, how Descartes’s introduction of the notion of material falsity plays a crucial role in furthering the subsequent argument of the Meditations.
