 Seeking to resolve the problem, the meditator investigates the causes of error. In the course of the discussion, Descartes puts forward his theory whereby judgment arises from the cooperation of the intellect and the will: the role of the intellect is to consider a perceptual content – i.e., something seeming to be the case, thereby functioning as a possible judgment; the role of the will is to give assent (or dissent), or withhold assent, to the perceptual content under consideration.