Part one of term paper
Descartes's Second Meditation discusses how a "body" can perceive things, such as objects. Perception is vital to his first theory that "[he] thinks, therefore [he] is." In order to prove his conclusion; he goes through a series of premises, or arguments, that lead him to his final conclusion. In order to reach this conclusion, he uses a p ...

Part two of term paper
... that nothing can be perceived more easily and more evidently than my own mind…" His conclusion is reached through a process of argument elimination. The argument begins with an implicit premise that "bodies" can perceive things in three ways. These ways are through the senses, the imagination, or the intellect. So his first premise implies that Descartes believes that there are only three ways to perceive things. The structure of the argument is based around the type of argument known as a ...