there might be some people who would prefer to deny the existence of any God so powerful, rather than believing that all other things are uncertain.” In other words, there are possibly other people who would deny that there is a God than to believe that everything else in the world does not exist. Descartes believes that God?

is being and all other things are not being. All other things in the world compared to God are subordinate because God is almighty.
Another one of Descartes’ theories in Meditation One is the Evil Demon Argument. It is also worth noting that is this not Descartes own position, but uses it as an argumentative device. The Evil Demon Argument states that an evil demon has the will, power, and the knowledge to make a person a constant victim of deception. Even one is thinking something is self-evidently true, it’s not.

There is a distinction between the mind and the body. The mind is essentially thinking and the body is essentially extended so that the two have nothing in common. In Descartes’ Meditations on Philosophy, there is a character, the mediator, and he reasons that he might cast all the opinions of others into doubt if he can doubt the foundations of basic principles upon which his opinions are founded.

In the first meditation, Descartes rejects as if false any belief that is open to doubt. He pushes skepticism to its limits by introducing the notion of an “evil demon”, a being that always tricks us into believing true what is actually