res extensa

English

Etymology

From Latin rēs extēnsa.

Noun

res extensa (uncountable)

  1. In Cartesian ontology, corporeal substance, distinguished from the res cogitans from which the mind or soul is made.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.