A Critical Examination of Rene Descartes’ Trademark Argument In the six meditations written by Rene Descartes there are numerous principals and theories proposed, among them is the Trademark argument for the existence of God, which states that we all have an innate idea of an infinitely perfect God and the cause of the idea could only be a perfect God. Descartes states that there are degrees to reality and what is less real may not …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…by any real ground but that of it’s conclusion. With out the beginning and end being separate the argument comes crashing down as easily as an upside down pyramid, fore much like an inverted pyramid the base of the argument is virtually absent but the logic built on it is sound if you do not deny the premises. But as an Anonymous poet once said, “with out a base nothing may be built.” By