In order to undertake his task, Descartes uses a method of doubt known as this.

In its strict sense, this is an image of things.

Refraining from making a judgement about things that are obscure and confused is this.

The existence of bodies is hypothesized by Descartes because this thing is not necessary to the pure understanding.

A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, does not will, and which also imagines and senses. (Latin and English)

Descartes' method is to systematically undermine the principles of his beliefs. These three steps are used to execute the task.

This principle is used to prove God's existence.

Following this means Descartes must separate the things he understands perfectly from those he understands in an obscure and confused way.

Descartes argues from this kind of thinking that physical things exist.

These two things are Descartes' certitudes.

This form of skepticism, named after a Greek philosopher argued that all our beliefs are subject to doubt.

All ideas have this equalizing nature which is analogous to paint and canvas.

I am not free to think of God without existence in the same way that I can imagine this.

These two faculties cannot be understood without myself as the intellectual substance in which they inhere because they are like modes of understanding.

This term refers to the metaphysical position of ideas as they relate to one another substantively.

The wax example demonstrates that this is an inspection of the mind alone.

This problem keeps going round in Descartes' Meditations.

If I wasn't distracted by prejudice and images of things, I would know this prior to everything else.

I am connected to my body in such an intimate way as to be unified with it. My relationship to my body is not like this.

These were given by nature to signify to the mind that which is beneficial or harmful for the body, but if I mistake them as guarantees of the essences of things, I run into problems.

This is the hypothesis in which Descartes suggests that it may be possible that God causes him to be mistaken, not unlike a faulty calculator.

Descartes explores a second proof for God in Mediation 3 by examining the following elements as causal factors, himself, his parents, society. This second proof is known as the ___________ argument.

If God exists and I understand that everything depends on Him and He is not a deceiver, I can conclude this.

Descartes understands this to be God himself or a coordinated system of created things established by God.

Descartes' argument for God's existence in Meditation 5 take these two logical forms.