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Just as the will is compelled to assent to what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be true, so it is compelled to choose what is clearly and distinctly perceived to be good: "if I always saw clearly what was true and good, I should never have to deliberate about the right judgement or choice" (AT VII 58/CSM II 40).
(For an overview of Descartes' proofs, see Nolan (2014) and Nolan and Nelson (2006).) Descartes' second main step is to argue from the premise (now established) that an all-perfect God exists, to the general veracity of the C&D Rule — whereby, whatever is clearly and distinctly perceived is guaranteed to be true.
These results provide important information on how attention might be distinctly influenced by those perceived emotions depending on the stimulus onset asynchrony (time-locking).
If a possibility that we are considering is clearly and distinctly perceived, then our clear and distinct perception conforms to reality, and the possibility that we are conceiving is not merely conceptual.
Yet the truth of what is clearly and distinctly perceived has yet to be established.
But unless each step of the argument is clearly and distinctly perceived, Descartes should not be making the argument.
Early in the Third Meditation, Descartes says that the epistemic basis of the cogito is, at this juncture, simply that it is clearly and distinctly perceived.
Provided we refrain from assenting to what is not clearly and distinctly perceived, our judgments are guaranteed to be true.
Descartes observes that the cogito result is known only from the fact that it is "clearly and distinctly" perceived by the intellect (7 35).
It is Aquinas who lies behind Descartes's view that first principles in the sciences are clearly and distinctly perceived by reason.
It will be distinctly unpleasant.
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