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Question: What is a Cartesian Substance!?
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A Cartesian substance would be anything that is material as opposed to spiritual!.

Descartes' dualism assumed that there was spirit and there was mater and that they only met and mingled in the pituitary gland in the head!.

Philosophers today for the most part reject Cartesian dualism as nonsense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The recognition of content and failure to recognize context!.

Content is form, objective, and "thinginess"
Context is formless, subjective and meaning!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is probably a bodily fluid left by Descartes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com