Read the excerpt below and answer the question. it remained, then, to conclude that it was put into me by a nature truly more perfect than was i and possessing in itself all the perfections of what i could form an idea—in a word, by god . . for if i had existed alone and independent of all other, so that i had of myself all this little whereby i participated in the perfect being, i should have been able to have in myself all those other qualities which i knew myself to lack. (discourse on method) the best inference from the passage is that god must exist because otherwise descartes, as an imperfect being, would not exist would be god would lack no advantageous qualities would have no knowledge of the idea of perfection the answer to this question is not b, i feel like it's d but i just want a second opinion

The answer is: would have no knowledge of the idea of perfection.

In this, Descartes´ famous proof of the existence of God, he makes the argument that, Descartes, being a man, that is to say, something that does not possess any of the qualities of perfection that God possesses, but being able to fathom an idea about God´s perfection, must mean that God not only exists, but that God himself instilled the idea of perfection in Descartes´s imperfect mind, for otherwise, an imperfect mind, by its imperfect nature, could not think something greater than itself.

Definitely D.

When he said ''For if I had existed alone and independent of all other so that I had of myself all this little whereby I participated in the Perfect Being I should have been able to have in myself all those other qualities which I knew myself to lack.''He saying that if god didn't exist there is no way he would know that he was imperfect.

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