... am going to attempt to critically examine Descartes argument as to the existence of God, as set out in the Third Meditation, in Descartes "Meditations on First Philosophy". Descartes definition of God is a being that is infinite and perfect, "the possessor of all the perfections which I cannot grasp, but can somehow reach in ... my thought". To do this I must set out his premises and look at them individually to see if they are sound and valid. Descartes premises put simply are as follows: I. I have an idea of ... that the qualities and perfections he believes God to have could not have ...

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... theologians, scientists, and others to prove that God does exist. St. Anselm‟s Ontological Argument is certainly one of the most famous arguments in the history of philosophy. Anselm argues for the existence of God based on deductive reasoning and inferences of existence. He gives an a priori proof of God's existence with premises that logically entail to the conclusion that God exists. In this paper, I will ... reasoning, one can simply define anything into existence by stipulating that an existent being is greater than non-existent one. On the purpose of that he formulates that bec...

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