 Defenders of an unbounded doubt interpretation would offer a different analysis of the passage. First, we saw that Descartes earlier claimed that what grounds the extraordinary certainty of the cogito is that “there is simply a clear and distinct perception.” Yet, that earlier claim is surprising, if the point of the above passage is that the natural light is epistemically superior to mere garden variety clarity and distinctness. A remark Descartes makes to Hobbes is relevant: “As everyone knows, a ‘light in the intellect’ means transparent clarity of cognition.” (Replies 3, AT 7:192, CSM 2:135) This suggests that “natural light” references are simply another way of talking about clear and distinct perception. On this point, Carriero notes: “I do not see an important distinction for Descartes between something’s being revealed to me by the light of nature and my perceiving clearly that thing’s being the case” (2008, 305). Note further that a bounded doubt interpretation of this passage is at odds with the numerous other passages we’ve examined indicating that even the cogito is vulnerable to the Evil Genius Doubt.