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The motive which induces me to present to you this Treatise is so excellent, and, when you become acquainted with its design, I am convinced that you will also have so excellent a motive for taking it under your protection, that I feel that I cannot do better, in order to render it in some sort acceptable to you, than in a few words to state what I have set myself to do.
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atheistic geometer, demonstrating metaphysical truths, deceiving deity, workman imprinted, analytic demonstration, perfect certitude, metaphysical first principles, thing that thinks, concerning clarity, distinction between analysis, supremely perfect being, divine guarantee, first meditation, ontological proof, auxiliary constructions, priori proof, corporeal objects, formal reality, whatever thinks, primary notions
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Principles of Philosophy, Evil Spirit, Geometrical Appendix, Geometric Exposition, John Cottingham, Jaakko Hintikka, Meditations Descartes, Second Replies, Clarendon Press, First Philosophy, New York, Professor Gouhier, Professor Gueroult, Gerd Buchdahl, Holy Scriptures, Roger Ariew, Sixth Meditation
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