At the end of Meditation Two, Rene Descartes found the Certainty (Rationalism) that he wants but the problem that he raises in Meditation One (Dreaming hypothesis and Evil Genius Hypothesis) are not yet resolve. If it that's the case he alone is the only one that sure to exist and everybody are just illusion, this is called Solipsism.
(The idea of solipsism s not exactly in the book solipsism but the concept of solipsism is attributed at this part of Meditation)
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Summary of Meditation II. Of the Nature of the Human Mind; and that it is more easily known than the Body.
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