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This is a 5 page paper discussing Descartes’ deductive reasoning, definitions and principles used in proving the existence of God. In Rene Descartes’ Meditation III, he proposes a logical argument to prove the existence of God. To do this, he presents an internally consistent argument through deductive reasoning and in addition provides further clarification for the reader in terms of definitions of formal and objective reality and principles for reality which help clarify his argument. Even without the further definitions and explanations of the principles however, upon accepting the initial premises that “nothing comes from nothing”, “the cause of the effect must have as much reality as its effect”, and “the cause of the idea must have as much reality as the idea itself”, then the introduction of the idea of God, and the cause of this idea is logical in its conclusion that since only God has infinite reality then only God is the cause of the idea of God (also infinite reality) and therefore God exists.
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To do this, he presents an internally consistent argument through deductive reasoning and in addition provides further clarification for the reader in terms of definitions of formal and objective reality
and principles for reality which help clarify his argument. Even without the further definitions and explanations of the principles however, upon accepting the initial premises that "nothing comes from nothing",
"the cause of the effect must have as much reality as its effect", and "the cause of the idea must have as much reality as the idea itself", then the
introduction of the idea of God, and the cause of this idea is logical in its conclusion that since only God has infinite reality then only God is the cause
of the idea of God (also infinite reality) and therefore God exists. His stepped process of deductive reasoning begins with the assumption "Ex
nihilo nihil fit" meaning "from nothing comes nothing". In other words, anything in existence is not able to originate from "nothing" and anything with more reality cannot originate from something
with less reality. Secondly, he proposes that "the cause of an effect must have as much reality (or more so) than its effect. This is a logical extension of the
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effect (Rene Descartes, 2002).
Third, similar to the cause and effect equality of reality, the cause of an idea must also have as much reality as the idea
itself. Myers, in his explanation explains that "another way of saying this is that it is impossible to derive the more perfect from the less perfect" (Myers, 2002). In the
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