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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals'' and 'Reply to Fifth Objections'

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle [Descartes]
     Full Idea: Possible existence is a perfection in the idea of a triangle, just as necessary existence is a perfection in the idea of God.
     From: René Descartes (Reply to Fifth Objections [1641], 383)
Necessary existence is a property which is uniquely part of God's essence [Descartes]
     Full Idea: In the case of God necessary existence is in fact a property in the strictest sense of the term, since it applies to him alone and forms a part of his essence as it does of no other thing
     From: René Descartes (Reply to Fifth Objections [1641], 383)
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 2. Pantheism
Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature [Antisthenes (I), by Cicero]
     Full Idea: Antisthenes says there is only one god, which is nature.
     From: report of Antisthenes (Ath) (fragments/reports [c.405 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - On the Nature of the Gods ('De natura deorum') I.32