With an understanding of distinct existences, Descartes is thus able to argue about the existence of himself as a thinking being as well as the makes his body a separate and non-thinking extension (Descartes 167).” Even with the high degree of doubt and uncertainty involved here, the very fact that God is not a deceiver [and] if nature is considered in its general aspect, then I mean by this term nothing other than God. And by my own nature in particular, I understand nothing other than the set of things that God has given me” (Descartes 168). At this point, Descartes built his foundation on the belief in the goodness of God in order to resolve the counterarguments he encountered in his First