First, he suggested that objects exist because God has the power to create them. This implies that the existence of external world doesn't need any theoretical explain, just by the ability of God, external world can make them into being.
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Summary of Meditation VI. Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the real distinction between the Soul and Body of Man.
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