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1. What did Descartes Learn in the first Meditation?

(1) Conclusion a Physical object is best apprehended by the intellect not the senses

(2) Any apprehension of an object including the wax will lead to knowledge of oneself.

(3) The intellect, the thinking self is the most clearly apprehended of things.

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