ABSTRACT
In Meditation VI Descartes concludes his argument for the ‘real distinctness’ of mind from body that he had begun in the Second. He also argues that our sense experiences must be caused by really existing physical objects, and that they can give us, to a very limited extent, knowledge of these objects. Finally, he discusses at some length the nature of the union of the human mind with ‘its’ body. These are the topics with which the present chapter will be concerned.
