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    It is not the case that The objective reality of innate and adventitious ideas must originate in the formal reality of things existing independently of the mind.

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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that ideas of causation, substance, and God can be fully constructed through the mind's own operations on sense impressions without requiring mind-independent formal realities as sources.
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    • 2.If complex ideas like God's can be assembled from simpler experiential components via reflection and amplification, the inference from objective to formal reality collapses into a psychological genetic account.
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    • 3.Descartes' causal principle that effects cannot exceed their causes begs the question by presupposing a realist ontology that the idealist tradition systematically denies.
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    • 1.Kant argued in the Critique of Pure Reason that the mind imposes its own a priori structures onto experience, meaning innate ideas trace to the intellect's spontaneity, not to independently existing things.
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    • 2.If the categories and ideas constitutive of experience are products of transcendental subjectivity, then objective reality in ideas originates in the mind's own formal operations rather than in external formal realities.
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    • 1.The idea of God's objective reality originates in God's formal reality, which is external to Descartes' mind.
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    • 2.The idea of body's objective reality originates in corporeal substance's formal reality, which is external to Descartes' mind.
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    • 3.In each case, the source of objective reality is something that exists independently of the mind.
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