Descartes’ Ontological Argument
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Descartes often compares the ontological argument to a geometric demonstration, arguing that necessary existence cannot be excluded from the idea of God anymore than the fact that its angles equal two right angles, for example, can be excluded from the idea of a triangle.
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