Res extensa is one of the two substances described by René Descartes in his Cartesian ontology[1] (often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res cogitans. Translated from Latin, "res extensa" means "extended thing" while the latter is described as "a thinking and unextended thing".[2] Descartes often translated res extensa as "corporeal substance" but it is something that only God can create.[3]
^Principia Philosophiae, 2.001.
^Bordo, Susan (2010). Feminist Interpretations of Rene Descartes. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0271018577.
^Schmaltz, Tad (2008). Descartes on Causation. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 46. ISBN 9780195327946.
(often referred to as "radical dualism"), alongside res cogitans. Translated from Latin, "resextensa" means "extended thing" while the latter is described...
phrases: Res divina (service of the gods) Res cogitans Descartes' mental world Resextensa Descartes' physical world Res gestae (Things done) Res inter alios...
describes his theory of mental substance (which he calls res cogitans distinguishing it from the resextensa) in the Second Meditation (II.8) and in Principia...
the body and the soul: the soul thinks (res cogitans) but is incorporeal, while the body is physical (resextensa) but does not think and is primarily defined...
distinguishing between the substances of the human body ("resextensa") and the mind or soul ("res cogitans"). This crucial distinction would be left unresolved...
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that a person's thinking agency, their res cogitans – as distinct from their material body, their resextensa – is something that we can know exists with...
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Folium Rule of signs Cartesian diver Balloonist theory Wax argument Res cogitans Resextensa Works Rules for the Direction of the Mind The Search for Truth...
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"Design". Oxford English Dictionary, substantive number 4. Manning, Russell Re. 2013. "Introduction". Pp. 1–9 in The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology...
immaterial domain he called res cogitans (the realm of thought), in contrast to the domain of material things, which he called resextensa (the realm of extension)...
form of natural substance known as res cogitans that obeyed different laws from those obeyed by solid matter (resextensa). Although Descartes' duality of...
it seems that Descartes' project for understanding the world was that of re-creating creation—a cosmological project which aimed, through Descartes' particular...
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Folium Rule of signs Cartesian diver Balloonist theory Wax argument Res cogitans Resextensa Works Rules for the Direction of the Mind The Search for Truth...
large intestine, the answer would have to be invented. But, no mathematical re-arrangement of a triangle could allow its three internal angles to sum to...
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