 A final consideration to mention in favor of the view that Descartes holds that eternal truths are absolutely necessary is that it is sensitive to the important worry raised by Broughton (1987) and Nadler (1987) – that if Descartes holds that the eternal truths of mathematics, etc., could have been otherwise, then he is committed to the conclusion that physical laws admit of more necessity than (for example) the truth that two and two add to four. Descartes is clear that physical laws follow from God’s nature (for example Principles II.36–37, CSM 1:240–241), and so they are absolutely necessary, but that would mean that he supposes that physical laws are more necessary than eternal truths. If anything, we would expect the story to go the other way around – that eternal truths would be necessary and that physical laws would be wholly contingent. In Descartes’ system it would appear that laws of physics are necessary and that eternal truths are necessary as well.