Replies to Vinci and Nelson.

The article focuses and responds to three main lines of criticisms against philosopher Rene Descartes' view that ideas of secondary qualities are materially false and the fusion of an intellectual and phenomenal component is crucial to the descriptivist-causal account. It explains why Cartesian sensations are still misrepresentational. It presents a defense to a nonliteral reading of the passage in Meditation Three. The problems with the descriptivist-causal account are addressed.