Malebranche on intelligible extension

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (4):581 – 608 (2003)
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This paper explores the ontology of Malebranche's notion of "intelligible extension", the archetypal divine idea of matter which he believed to be the immediate object of our own minds in all of our thoughts about corporeal things. Building on this account of its ontology, and through an examination of a form of isomorphism between intelligible extension and the created spatial world, the paper also attempts to explain the manner in which it could fulfill its epistemological role of representing all possible bodies and supplying us with our abstract knowledge of geometry

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Le parallélisme théologico-mathématique chez Malebranche.Paul Schrecker - 1938 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 125 (3/4):215 - 252.

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