Premise 1 : I have an idea of God as an infinitely perfect being.
The source of this ideas are:
Fictitious
Adventitious
Innate
Not Fictitious because fictitious ideas are imagination, and imagination is a combination of elements from sensory experience. Therefore, it lacks the quality for a certain, infinite and perfect idea of God.
Not Adventitious because Adventitious ideas are arises from external stimuli or experience. Therefore, it also lacks the quality for a certain, infinite and perfect idea of God.
The first two options may be subject to doubt (Meditation 1)
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In this Meditation III Rene is trying to prove the existence of God.
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