Topic > Descartes' meditation on the argument according to which the idea of...

In Descartes the causal principle of cause is always equal to and greater than its effect, we can argue that things must not have the same properties as things that cause to exist. This could be demonstrated in hydrogen which is completely different from the helium melted to produce it. One could therefore question the idea that God, an infinite substance, could not have originated in me, since I am a finite substance. Having said this in the third Meditation, in his idea of ​​God, Descartes says that "in God there are an infinity of things that I cannot understand, and perhaps not even understand in any way." (Descartes) Although unfortunately for Descartes a person can have something of an idea of ​​infinity that is not innate. If you took paper and scissors and started cutting paper into pieces, you would begin to believe that this continuation of repetition will produce an infinite number of infinitely small paper. So there is a possibility that you can understand the infinity of properties that compose it