Descartes meditation assignment

The editor then reaches the conclusion that God is not a deceiver, but there could be a “ supremely powerful and clever,” (22) evil genius who is deceiving him This leads the mediator to believe that everything his senses tell him is possibly an illusion created by this evil genius. Descartes ends his first meditation in a state of ambiguity. The possibility of an evil genius deceiving him causes him to doubt everything. He closes the meditation without having reached a distinct conclusion, but he states that he Will refuse to believe the false things he used to believe.