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Episode #030 ... Descartes pt. 3 - God Exists

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The Insurance That God Provides to Descartes Is to Prevent Us From Doubting These Things

descarte is heavily criticised for his creation of the idea of objective versus formal reality. Many people wonder why there even needs to be a distinction, and what basis he has for making this distinction in the first place. On that same note, another common objection is that it's a huge logical leap to arbitrarily say that beings with finite formal reality cannot possibly conceive of something with infinite objective reality. And why is that necessarily an impossibility?

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