Foucher

She had a first-person view: But for those not in front of the Capitol with Monica Foucher of Chicago, there was live coverage all over TV.

TV coverage gives everyone a seat on the Mall 2009

Foucher was an “academic skeptic” who attacked the assumption that ideas in us can represent objects distinct from us (see Foucher 1969).

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

This argument is not to be found in Foucher or in this article, but it does appear in note G of the Zeno article, unconnected with Foucher: “the modern Philosophers, though they are no Sceptics,” have made secondary qualities no more than perceptions in the mind; “why should we not say the same thing of extension?”

This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

In fact, however, the arguments that Foucher actually deployed were directed less against Malebranche, whom he took simply to assume the distinction, than against Descartes and especially Rohault.

This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

The contention is that just as Malebranche produced arguments to show that secondary qualities exist only in the mind, so his critic Foucher extended those same arguments to show that primary qualities also exist only in the mind.

This, About The Man I Met Out Here In Nearly Nowhere 2009

Foucher had objected that Malebranche has no good reason to affirm the external existence of these properties.

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

Perhaps put off by Malebranche's harsh treatment of Foucher and Desgabets, his critics offered instead only informal objections channeled through mutual friends.

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

Foucher, S. Critique de la recherche de la verité.

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

Simon Foucher (1644-1696), canon of Sainte Chapelle of Dijon.

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009

The Cartesian Benedictine Robert Desgabets (1610-1678) replied to Foucher by insisting that the Cartesian rule that clear and distinct ideas are true presupposes that our thoughts correspond to real external objects.

Nicolas Malebranche Schmaltz, Tad 2009