 Methodical doubt is intended to help us appreciate the folly of the commonsensical position – helping us recognize that perception of our own minds is “not simply prior to and more certain … but also more evident” than perception of our own bodies (Prin. 1:11, AT 8a:8, CSM 1:196). “Disagreement on this point,” writes Descartes, comes from “those who have not done their philosophizing in an orderly way”; from those who, while properly acknowledging the “certainty of their own existence,” mistakenly “take ‘themselves’ to mean only their bodies” – failing to “realize that they should have taken ‘themselves’ in this context to mean their minds alone” (Prin. 1:12, AT 8a:9, CSM 1:196).