In Descartes fifth meditation he tried to use a proof of God's existence that is known as the ontological argument. I will attempt in this paper to refute the argument. I will be using some citations from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and will also be using some of my own thoughts and thoughts that are derived from class discussion. I think that it is important to first try to arrange ... Descartes" argument into point form, so as to better be able to analyze it. I have translated Descartes argument like this: 1. If I clearly and distinctly perceive some property as belonging to the idea of...

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... - we must develop an understanding of why a cause produces a certain effect. Hume's critique of causation is that we cannot see it, we must deduce it. For example, two billiard balls, one moving toward the next demonstrate temporal priority because one ball is moving first. Secondly, constant conjunction occurs because the balls exist together spatially and constantly. But, there is no necessary reason why this happens. Hume ... we could get to things necessary and universal was through "a priori". Kant found that the concept of the connection of cause and effect was by no means the only...

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