An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Here is a second proof. You can’t think of a perfect being that doesn’t exist. That would be no easier than to conceive a mountain without a valley. The first critics and later Kant, in 1781, answered that existence isn’t a quality a thing can have or lack.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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