More on the Cogito

To be read after the previous essay.

I am now three pages into the preface of Phenomenology of Perception, and I see this:

Descartes's [sic] methodical doubt does not deprive us of anything, since the whole world, at least in so far as we experience it, is reinstated in the Cogito, enjoying equal certainty, and simply labelled 'thought of . . .'

You can see Mr. Merleau-Ponty and I are on the same level in terms of Descartes.