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    Truth is the conformity of thought with its object. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Possibilities which exist only in thought are not possibilities at all on Descartes' view.
    Challenges→The common-sense concept of 'possible' (whatever does not conflict with human concepts) cannot be Descartes' view of genuine possibility.

    Truth is the conformity of thought with its object.

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    These alleged possibilities (if they are anything) would be among all of the other creatures; they would be actuals. It might of course be the case that Descartes just insists that there are possible existents in addition to actual existents. Alternately, it might be the case that like Spinoza (in Ethics Part IV, definitions three and four), Descartes uses the expression “possible existence” to describe actually-existing creatures, and in a way that is consistent with a denial of non-actual rea

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