It is indeed Descartes and everything for which this' name serves as an index it is indeed the system of certainty that first of all functions in order to inspect, master, and limit hyperbole, and does so both by determining it in the ether of a natural light whose axioms are from the outset exempt from hyperbolical doubt, and by making of hyperbolical doubt a point of transition firmly maintained phenomenology in the metaphysics of presence, the entire Husserlian thematic of the living present is the profound reassurance of the certainty of meaning.