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Essay / Descartes' meditation on the argument that the idea of...
In Descartes' causal principle of cause is always equal to and greater than its effect, we can assert that things need not have the same properties as the things they bring into existence. This could be demonstrated in hydrogen which is completely different from the helium which was fused to make it. Thus, the idea that God, an infinite substance, could not have been born in me, since I am a finite substance, could be called into question. That being said, in the third Meditation, in his idea of God, Descartes says that “in God there are an infinity of things that I cannot understand, or perhaps even understand in any way. » (Descartes) Although unfortunately for Descartes, a person can have some idea of infinity that is not innate. If you take paper and scissors and start cutting the paper into pieces, you will begin to believe that these repetition proses will produce an infinite number of infinitely small papers. It is therefore possible that you can understand the infinity of properties that make up