On Curley’s reading, Descartes secures the necessity of eternal truths by arguing that God willed them to be necessary, and hence it can be said that it is false that they could have been otherwise. But Descartes also holds that God created the possibility that they not be necessary, and that is why they are not necessarily necessary, as it could have been the case that they could have been otherwise. Some commentators have argued that a problem for Curley’s view is that it cannot allow Descarte