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Error and Clarity

When the will affirms, what makes it correct or incorrect?

To be correct is to affirm those of the intellect’s representions which are correct.

Objection: The intellect is not supposed to be capable of error.

To be correct is to affirm those of the intellect’s representions which are clear and distinct.

‘What is meant by a clear perception

I call a perception 'clear' when it is present and accessible to the attentive mind - just as we say that we see something clearly when it is present to the eye's gaze and stimulates it with a sufficient degree of strength and accessibility.

\citep[pp.~207--8, AT VIII:21--22]{descartes:1985_csm1}

Descates (Principles of Philosophy)

No idea what to make of this.
For comparison, why should a map that is clear and distinct be thought to be more accurate than one that is blurry?

why?

‘Whatever I perceive very clearly and distinctly is true’

Third Meditation