Descartes knows, by the end of the second Meditation, that he exists as a human with a body and soul.

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By the end of the second Meditation, Descartes concludes that he exists as a thinking thing (res cogitans), but he has not yet established the existence of his body or its nature; he only asserts the certainty of his existence as a thinking entity with the famous phrase "I think, therefore I am" (Cogito, ergo sum).

Descartes Knows, by the End of the Second Meditation, That