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This book argues that certain “material falsities” give rise to ideas with objective reality but no corresponding formal reality. In a letter, this book’s author defended one of its conclusions by appealing to three types of “primitive notions” and a Scholastic idea of heaviness. An objection by Pierre Gassendi, included in a set of “objections and replies” appended to this book, (10[1])critiques how this book compares (10[1])a chiliagon and a myriagon to distinguish imagination and pure intellect. Elisabeth of Bohemia pressed this book’s author (10[1])on how its concepts of extended substance and thinking substance interact. This book claims that “clear and distinct” ideas (10[1])allowed its author to comprehend a piece of wax. For 10 points, (10[1])the evil demon (10[1])appears in what book by René Descartes that follows Discourse on Method? (10[1]0[3])■END■

ANSWER: Meditations on First Philosophy [or Meditationes de Prima Philosophia; accept René Descartes’s Meditations or equivalents; prompt on Meditations by asking “by what author?”]
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