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Descartes distinguishes between the formal reality of an idea (its reality "only taken as certain modes thought" (IP3 52a)) and what he calls its "objective" reality.
The objective reality of an idea is the reality as it represents it.
Descartes takes it that there are degrees of reality. There are at least the following three levels of (increasingly greater) reality:
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