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Descartes Argument For The Existence Of God

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Descartes also formulates another argument of doubt but uses God as his object of deception instead of dreaming. He first states that we believe that there is an all-powerful God who has created us, redundant. Descartes goes on to say, that God has it in His power to make us be deceived even about matters of mathematical knowledge which we seem to understand clearly. Descartes does acknowledge his argument is controversial and brings up objections to support his argument. Some might believe God wouldn’t deceive us. However, Descartes response is if it were objectionable in God’s nature to deceive us, then He wouldn’t allow us to be deceived at all. He goes on to explain if there is no God, we must assume that the author of our being is even
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