Descartes’ Circular Reasoning? There Is No “Cartesian Circle.”

Ever since Descartes published his book, Meditations, he has been accused of committing a fallacy of circular reasoning with his argument that God is the guarantor of the truth of our belief in an external world. Descartes’ argument has ever since been derided as the “Cartesian Circle.” The problem is that the so-called “Cartesian Circle” is a misrepresentation of what Descartes is…