 The other passage arises in the Fifth Meditation, in the concluding summary explanation of how the sceptical problem is finally overcome. Importantly, on the present interpretation, is the context in which the summary explanation occurs: namely, on the heels of revealing the newly discovered thesis, that nothing “is more self-evident than the fact that the supreme being exists.” In that context, Descartes explains that a final solution to the sceptical problem has been achieved.