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This paper provides a summary and critique of Descartes argument for the proof of God in his "Meditations." Each paragraph describes an aspect of Descartes' argument and refutes it through showing his flaws in logic or fallacies. The next section of the essay summarizes each of the Meditations and their main point and critiques them in a similar fashion.

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"Rene Descartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy" contain six of the philosopher's Meditations that reveal his rationalism or belief in human reason as the means of discerning absolute truth. In each of these Meditations, Descartes provides a foundation for "Meditation III" in which he provides proof for God's existence. In other Meditations, Descartes provides us with his method of doubt, his method of reason or logic and other concepts like mind-body dualism. Descartes' proof of God's existence is based on his logic known as the..."

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