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5636	Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton]
	Full Idea: Cartesian 'ideas' seem to be both concepts and propositions at once.
	From: Roger Scruton (Short History of Modern Philosophy [1981], Ch.4)
	A reaction: This seems to be the simple reason why modern philosophers don't like this seventeenth century notion. There is something slightly too tidy about the modern notion of propositions built out of concepts. Animals see propositions in a flash.