Premise 1: If I can clearly and distinctly perceive something, then it is possible for God to create it.
Premise 2: If God creates something to be independent of another, they are distinct from each other.
Premise 3: I clearly and distinctly understand my existence as a thinking thing, not requiring the existence of a body.
Conclusion 1: Therefore, God can create a thinking thing independently of a body. (From Premise 1 and 2)
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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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