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The Eleatic Descartes
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 45, Number 1, January 2007
- pp. 29-45
- 10.1353/hph.2007.0013
- Article
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Given Descartes's conception of extension, space and body, there are deep problems about how there can be any real motion. The argument here is that in fact Descartes takes motion to be only phenomenal. The paper sets out the problems generated by taking motion to be real, the solution to them found in the Cartesian texts, and an explanation of those texts in which Descartes appears on the contrary to regard motion as real.