Premise 4: I clearly and distinctly understand my body as an extended thing, not requiring a mind.
Conclusion 2: Therefore, God can create a body independently of a mind. (From Conclusion 1 and Premise 4)
Premise 5: My mind is a reality distinct from my body.
Conclusion 3: Therefore, I (a thinking thing) can exist without a body. (From Conclusion 2 and Premise 5)
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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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