At the time of writing the fifth meditation, Descartes was a living human being who has lived only one life and by necessity has never died. Descartes cannot remember or reflect on any experiences he had outside the realm of existence, and from such his knowledge of existence is limited to someone from the “inside looking in”. Descartes, as an imperfect human being, is not in a position to assert which qualities are perfect and extended to god, as Descartes is not a perfect being. His claim that the quality of existence is a perfect quality of god cannot be stated as Descartes cannot reflect on the experience of not existing. Descartes, has never directly observed any object outside of the confines of the universe we live in now. He cannot without doubt claim to fully understand the nature of existence, when he cannot remember what the state of not existing is akin to. Existence cannot be extended as a necessary quality to god in the manner that the interior sum of the angles of a triangle must sum to 180
At the time of writing the fifth meditation, Descartes was a living human being who has lived only one life and by necessity has never died. Descartes cannot remember or reflect on any experiences he had outside the realm of existence, and from such his knowledge of existence is limited to someone from the “inside looking in”. Descartes, as an imperfect human being, is not in a position to assert which qualities are perfect and extended to god, as Descartes is not a perfect being. His claim that the quality of existence is a perfect quality of god cannot be stated as Descartes cannot reflect on the experience of not existing. Descartes, has never directly observed any object outside of the confines of the universe we live in now. He cannot without doubt claim to fully understand the nature of existence, when he cannot remember what the state of not existing is akin to. Existence cannot be extended as a necessary quality to god in the manner that the interior sum of the angles of a triangle must sum to 180