Can One Perceive Or Confirm The Existence Of An Idea Or Object That Is External To Him Mainly - God?

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legitimate cause. A stone, for example, cannot be perceived accurately if there
isn't an initial idea preceding with equal or superior properties in one's
intellect. The mind generates ideas and develops reality through previous
schema or beliefs as Descartes states:

"And although an idea may give rise to another idea, this
regress cannot, nevertheless, be infinite;we must in the
end reach a first idea, the cause of which is, as it were,
the archetype in which all the reality that is found
objectively in these ideas is contained formally."

Additionally, properties such as color, sound, heat, and cold are too
complex in their nature for Descartes to determine whether they are true or
false. In other words, are the ideas that one has about a property true or
false? Consequently, Descartes concludes that there is a common element between
examples like the stone and the cold. The cold portraying the unreal or false
object ...

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