Abstract

This article begins with certain specific objections to Descartes two proofs of the existence of God to be found in the Meditations. I‚ then‚ try to show that the certesian system is‚ nonetheless‚ not committed to solipsism. For the hypothetical doubt which renders the latter attractive‚ not to say compelling, is in the final analysis unacceptable even to a clear-headed cartesian. One is‚ as a result‚ justified in affirming without reservation the probable existence of the material world