 It appears that something in Descartes’ comments about the eternal truths has to give. It might be that, since Descartes is clearly not prepared to adjust his commitment to divine omnipotence, he instead has to abandon his view that they are  necessary.[8]  On this interpretation, developed and defended by Harry Frankfurt, all eternal truths are inherently contingent because they could have been false, and they could have been false because God could have made their contradictories true. Frankfurt’s interpretation is motivated not only by Descartes’ commitment to divine omnipotence; there are also some texts: