Descartes create a distinction about different things
Composite things - are the things that are complex, always changing, dubious and must be doubt like Physics, Astronomy, and Medicine.
Simple things - are the things that are fixed and unchanging like colors, shapes, quantities, space, time—the kinds of objects studied by Arithmetic and Geometry.
Whenever I'm awake or sleeping 2 plus 3 is always equal to 5. Therefore, Simple things are the things that Rene Descartes can trust.
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Summary of Meditation I. Of the things which may be brought within the sphere of the doubtful.
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