- Why does Descartes claim that sight, and therefore also the new technology of optics, is so important?
- How does Descartes seek to prove that theories of extromission are false and intromission is correct?
- Descartes’s metaphor of the wine cask attempts to help his reader understand which property of light?
- Why does he use metaphors such as the wine cask and the ball to explain physical phenomena?
- What is the relationship between the body and the soul, as Descartes conceives it?
- According to Descartes conception, what is similar about images and the action of sight it relation to thought
and understanding?
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