Abstract

Reading the Meditations, one readily sees that Descartes is concerned to go beyond the probable and seek the certain. And with other titles, such as Rules for the Direction of the Mind and Discourse on Method, one might think that Descartes is suggesting that the certain can be refined from the probable with the proper mental operations; that it is present in the probable, but clouded and distorted. M. Glouberman’s thesis is that this is the wrong way to read Descartes.