 An alternative account, what has been called the “maker’s knowledge” view of Hobbes’ civil philosophy, attempts to connect Hobbes’ demonstrations and definitions in geometry with civil philosophy. This view avoids the two difficulties faced by the definitivist account mentioned above and holds that Hobbesian civil philosophy is demonstrable by appealing to Hobbes’ own understanding of what constitutes a demonstration (Adams 2019). The remainder of this section will discuss two features of the “maker’s knowledge” account of Hobbesian civil philosophy.