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In the sixth meditation, Descartes presents an argument regarding mind and body dualism: the mind and body are utterly distinct. He holds that they are both discrete and that the mind is a purely nonphysical substance. His argument attempts to show and validate that the mind is a completely separate and distinct entity from the body and that he can exist without it. First, he makes the claim that God is omnipotent, yet a good and pure God; therefore, if Descartes is strongly inclined to believe something as true, it would be deceptive of God to make him think otherwise. Therefore, in his perfect will, Descartes is convinced that anything he is able to conceive of is possible. With this—for the rest of the paper—I will explain the argument Descartes offers for this argument for dualism, and offer an objection to his argument.
Descartes must prove that the mind and body are distinct and he does this as follows. First, since the mind and the body can each be conceived clearly......

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