ABSTRACT
At the start of the Third Meditation, Descartes sums up the little that he so far knows: that he is a conscious being, that is
In order to extend his knowledge further, he says, he will now look further into himself; and it is, of course, essential that it should be into himself he should look, that anything else that he can discover should be unravelled from the mental existence of which alone he is, at this stage, certain.1
