In Descartes’s Second Meditation, he aims to determine what “I think, therefore I am” means. He accepts that he is not solely a being who can think and doubt, but that he can also imagine and sense. While Descartes admits that everything may be a deception, he is still convinced that he can sense things and imagine. While sensory perception could be separate from reality, it is still a part of his thinking mind. Descartes begins to examine what he knows of what he is. He acknowledges that he cannot trust senses and that neither should he trust the imagination. The imagination can create things that are not real, so it cannot be used to know his nature. He uses an exercise to determine how he comes to know of a piece of wax. Descartes determines
