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Descartes's Meditations
Meditation I
If I doubt, I must exist in order to doubt.
If I am deceived my God or an evil demon, I must exist in order to be deceived.
If I am conscious, in any form whatsoever, I must exist in order to be conscious.
Meditation II
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Descartes argues that regardless of how cunning the demon is, he cannot make me think I do not exist, since the apprehension of that thought will make one aware that one is thinking it.
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By bringing a piece of wax near a fire, Descartes argues that bodies are not perceived by the senses but by the intellect.
Meditation IV
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Error is a privation, so it is not concurred in by God.
The will is simple, so it couldn't (and anyway shouldn't) be diminished.
It is of the nature of a finite intellect not to understand many things, and of a created being to finite.
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Will is "when something is proposed to us by the intellect either to affirm or deny, to pursue or to shun, we are moved by it in such a way that we sense that no external force could have imposed it on us."
Meditation III
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Descartes argued that he had a clear and distinct idea of God. In the same way that the cogito was self-evident, so too is the existence of God, as his perfect idea of an ideal being could not have been caused by anything less than a perfect being
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Meditation V
Concerning the Essence of Material Things, and Again Concerning God, That He Exists
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