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The third meditation is entitled Meditation Three: Concerning God, That He Exists. The goal of this paper is to display Descartes’ argument for the existence of God and also to state why I think Descartes’ argument is valid through any possible objections and examples. Meditation three begins with Descartes reviewing with his readers, as he does in other meditations as well, what things he has concluded thus far in the meditations. He knows that he is a thinking thing that has clear and distinct perceptions, perceptions he knows to be true, and also that he doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, imagines, and senses. Also those things apprehended by the senses he has cast into doubt because he does not perceive the things but only the idea of the things. Descarte is also sure about arithmetic and geometry are clear and distinct perceptions, but he cannot be certain if God is deceiving him. And so to ensure himself of these things he must inquire into the nature of God to see if he would deceive him (Descartes 24).
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