Descartes Meditation Two Descartes comes up with the wax argument in order to explain what he is – what man is. His certainty that he exists, that he can even utter or conceive the thought in his mind allows him to consider this idea and further develop it coming to his conclusion. But before he begins his thinking on this subject he meditates on what he once believed himself to be. Descartes starts by invalidating (for …showed first 75 words of 1274 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1274 total…judgment of our minds is not. At the end of all this thinking of who he is, Descartes finally decides to stop and meditate on this new information he has discovered. His conclusion is that out of everything he has thought of, his mind is the most distinctly perceived thing he knows and that bodies, or objects, are only known through the minds understanding of them alone and not through the senses or the imagination.