The conclusions of the previous Meditations that Rene Descartes or "I" and "God" both exist eventually lead to another problem:
"If God is perfectly good and the source of all that is, how is there room for error or falsehood?"
In other words, "If God is perfect then why there is a mistake in the world?"
(This meditation IV is dedicated to answer that specific problem.)
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Summary of Meditation IV. Of the True and the False.
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