ABSTRACT
Having provided a theory of judgment that allows for human error compatible with divine perfection, Descartes begins to see what fruit the nondeceptiveGod thesis will bear. We have already seen that the thesis initially implies the formal truth of clear and distinct ideas, since they psychologically compel humans to accept their truth and, consequently, God would be a deceiver if clear and distinct ideas were false. This entails only that these ideas represent true and immutable natures, that is, ideas in the mind of God. As we shall see, the nondeceptive-God thesis drives the main arguments in Meditations Five and Six, and the general form of those arguments is as follows:
1. There is a phenomenon that I am psychologically compelled (or disposed) to believe.
