•These are modes of a substance much as my own substance (mind).

•Thus, these corporeal elements could come from thoughts similar of me. Yet, if I can find something that I cannot be a cause of, then I am not alone in the world (There exists something else).

•Descartes thought God is such an entity that we cannot be the cause of.

•God’s Properties: Omnipotence, Omniscience, infinite

1) I could not have the idea of God unless God exists (God causes it).

•Descartes argues that we could not invent the idea of God through our faculty of imagination since what is more perfect cannot arise out of what is less perfect.

•Some idea of a perfect being enables me to recognize my own defects.

•God is a clear and distinct idea that Descartes has.

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