PHI 1 Lecture Notes - Dime (United States Coin)
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If i had caused my own existence, i would have made myself perfect: as a finite substance, i have enough formal reality to be the cause of an idea of any finite substance besides myself: Of other human minds a: of non-human minds (angels, of physical objects, so, my having the idea of a finite substance other than myself doesn"t prove that such a finite substance exists. I do not have enough formal reality to be the cause of my idea of god, a supreme, infinite being which created all other things: descartes features anselm and aquinas: I fall into error because i have an infinite will which can accept anything as true, including what is beyond the limits of my understanding: when i fall into error, it is no fault of god"s: I should thank god for giving me even limited understanding.
