Descartes Meditation 2 Analysis

In his powerful philosophical treatise, “Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditation II”, Descartes remains persistent in his argument concerning doubt. Descartes expresses the probability that the knowledge concerning external things is possibly invalid due to the consequences caused by the actions of a wicked demon. Descartes continues to pursue along with his argument by stating that some things that must be true is his existence and his nature as a thinking man. Descartes declares that his body is more easily apparent though his mind then through his actual body. For Descartes to better explain his statement, he compares his statement to a piece of wax in an effort to make it easier to understand. Descartes melts the wax to demonstrate