 We might wonder though if Descartes would be happy to identify the possibilities of the First Meditation as epistemic possibilities, even if they are not real possibilities. After all, the meditator is entertaining doubts in the First Meditation, and she is honestly reporting that because she is not yet certain that God exists or is not a deceiver, for all she knows God might not exist exist or might be a deceiver. She concludes that it is possible that God does not exist and that it is possible that He is a deceiver, and indeed both of those claims, in the sense in which they are uttered, would appear to be true at the moment that she utters them. It certainly seems as though the meditator is saying something true when she expresses that for all she knows God is a deceiver (or does not exist), but a complication arises when we consider Descartes’ own view that a mind is not really thinking of God if they are imagining an extremely powerful being that is a deceiver (“Letter to Voetius,” May 1643, CSMK 222, cited above). Nor are we thinking of God if we have an imagistic idea of a giant man on a cloud (Fifth Replies, CSM 2:252), and we are not thinking of mind or self if we have an imagistic idea of air or fire (Fifth Replies, CSM 2:264). Regardless of how we might report or describe our own thinking in such cases, those just are not the things that we have in mind. If so, a question arises about whether or not Descartes would want to allow that the First Meditation possibility that (for example) God is a deceiver is in fact the epistemic possibility that (for all the First Meditation meditator knows) God might be a deceiver. He would be reluctant to allow this, I think, because he is committed to saying that the First Meditation meditator who thinks of God as a deceiver is not thinking of God at all. But even if Descartes did want to speak in line with common sense and accept the First Meditation meditator’s understanding of their own thought processes, he would still conclude that none of the possibilities of the First Meditation is a real possibility.