 It would be misleading to characterize the arguments of the Meditations as unfolding straightforwardly according to geometric method (cf. Curley 2006, 31). But Descartes maintains that they can be reconstructed as such, and he expressly does so at the end of the Second Replies – providing a “geometrical” exposition of some of his central lines of argument, organized as definitions, postulates, axioms or common notions, and propositions (AT 7:160–70, CSM 2:113–120).