 Again, the italicized segment marks an addition to the original statement of Arc 1. Let’s call this an ‘Unbounded Doubt’ interpretation, because this kind of interpretation construes hyperbolic doubt as unbounded. More precisely, the Evil Genius Doubt is (on this reading) unbounded in the sense that it undermines all manner of judgments – even the cogito, even the premises of the Third Meditation proofs of God – when the mind is no longer attending to them clearly and distinctly. Insofar as the meditator assents to the steps of these proofs, he does so not because of having an understanding of clear and distinct perceptions as being guaranteed true, but because the mind cannot but assent to them while attending clearly and distinctly.