what is René Descartes formal vs objective reality

Question

i was reading some of it earlier, but i still dont understand it. so the idea of something is also real?

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>So the idea of something is also real?

Very simply, his argument was: I can hold an idea about an object, even when no object actually exists. Therefore an object, and my idea of it, are both real yet distinct phenomena.