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1 Explain Descartes’s theory of matter as ‘extended substance’. Why was it suited to the ‘new’ quantitative approach to science?

2 Why is extension the principal attribute of matter or physical substance in Descartes’s view? Why are hardness, weight or colour not an essential part of bodily nature?

3 What, on Descartes’s account, individuates the objects of the world?