A genuine supersubstantivalist must treat spatial regions as ontologically prior to their occupants, but Descartes grounds all spatial facts in the prior existence of bodies, inverting the required explanatory direction.

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Descartes: # Descartes René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician from the 1600s who fundamentally changed how people think about knowledge and the mind. He's famous for the idea "I think, therefore I am" (cogito ergo sum), which means that the very fact that you can think proves you exist—a foundation for modern philosophy. He also invented the coordinate system used in mathematics (the x and y axes on a graph), which connects geometry and algebra in practical ways we still use today.
Explanatory direction(in philosophy of explanation): Which thing explains which—for example, whether intentions explain actions, or actions explain intentions.
Occupants(as used in this philosophical argument): Objects or things that fill or take up space; in this context, the physical bodies or matter that exist within spatial regions.
Spatial facts(as used in this philosophical argument): True statements about space, distance, location, and how things are arranged in relation to each other.

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