ABSTRACT
At the end of the Second Objections to the Meditations, Mersenne invites Descartes to “set out the entire argument in geometrical fashion, starting from a number of definitions, postulates and axioms” (AT 7: 128, CSM 2: 92). While Descartes complies with Mersenne’s request (AT 7: 160-70, CSM 2: 113-20), he initially responds that the arguments of the Meditations are set forth in accordance with a geometrical method, namely, the method of analysis.
