 Alanen argues that for Descartes we are being hasty if we attempt to point to considerations that we do not at all understand – for example divine activity and any modalities that we think might apply to it – and if we then appeal to those considerations as a basis for understanding the necessity of eternal truths. But that does not mean that we should conclude that truths about the necessary and the possible are merely subjective. Eternal truths like that two and two add to four are in fact necessary, even if we do not understand the backstory of God’s production of them (Ibid., 365–367).