Rene Descartes 1596-1650 Rene Descartes 1596-1650

Third Meditation: What does“Natural Light” mean?Appearing in the first time in Meditation 3, “Natural light” is that which weintuitively grasp (e.g., our own existence) or we see the connectionsbetween some and other intuitions (it is not inference: “you can’t say,then this”); natural light: It is that which means….; you can’t use imply orinferential reason because it is not under demon objection.Natural light is a “kind of inner illuminator.”Natural light provides natural insight into “what you mean”; not logical.Consider the following comment from Katherine Wilson’s DescartesMeditations:80