I found this on the Stanford Encyclopedia: This is Descartes Ontological Argument for God’s Existence.
Version A:
1. Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to be contained in the idea of something is true of that thing.
2. I clearly and distinctly perceive that necessary existence is contained in the idea of God.
3. Therefore, God exists.
Version B:
1. I have an idea of supremely perfect being, i.e. a being having all perfections.
2. Necessary existence is a perfection.
3. Therefore, a supremely perfect being exists
I also found this…Descartes argument to the thinking that Descartes believed existence to be a property
"Existence is not a perfection either in God or in anything else; it is that without which no perfections can be present"
I got this information from: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-ontological/#1
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So Descartes thinks perfection is god according to Version A & B; however the Descartes argument states that not even god is perfect?
Sorry I should of explained why I put the bottom quote there. In the Meditations, Descartes trys to defend his argument of why God exists against critisms. One critisms of Descartes work was how can existence be a property of matter. So that is Descartes defense to that critism.
he is so confusing, but this makes sense now.
It is so confusing for me because I don't understand how he believes his evidence is sufficient. It is like how can you compare a triangle's existence to God's existence and call that proof for God's existence.
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