 Descartes advances a number of claims that are false in the Meditations, but he does this for good reason. He is writing in the voice of a meditator who at the start of inquiry is not yet a Cartesian and who in the course of inquiry is expressing views that seem to him to be true from his non-Cartesian point-of-view. The meditator will express and evaluate these views and see for himself how they collapse on their own weight.