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Descartes’s Meditation V Argument

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In Meditation V, Descartes argues that “there is not any less repugnance to our conceiving a God (that is, a Being supremely perfect) to whom existence is lacking (that is to say, to whom a certain perfection is lacking), than to conceive of a mountain which has no valley”. And he draws the conclusion that “existence is inseparable from Him, and hence that He really exists”.1

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Dore, C. (1984). Descartes’s Meditation V Argument. In: Theism. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6300-9_7

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