In the third section of this work, the author inquires as to whether he could exist without God, and concludes that since he could not, God must exist. At the end of the fifth section he states that "the certitude and truth o
In the third section of this work, the author inquires as to whether he could exist without God, and concludes that since he could not, God must exist. At the end of the fifth section he states that "the certitude and truth of all science depends on the knowledge alone of the true God." The first section is titled "Of the Things of Which We May Doubt," while in the second section the author discovers not only that he exists but that he is essentially a thinking thing. By the end of the sixth and final section, the author has taken this small premise and from it proven the existence of everything in his world. FTP, identify this work by Descartes, whose second section is popularly summarized with the Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum. "
In the third section of this work, the author inquires as to whether he could exist without God, and concludes that since he could not, God must exist.