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    Therefore the mind cannot fabricate the idea of God from ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The idea of God is innate, not factitious.

    Therefore the mind cannot fabricate the idea of God from other ideas.

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    In Descartes’ analysis of his idea of God, he discovers that it is innate, since it is neither adventitious nor factitious. It is not adventitious (or sensory), since he has had no sensory experiences of God (i.e., he has never seen, heard, felt, smelt, or tasted God). This would be in line with the theological demand that God is immaterial. It is not factitious, for its content is something that his mind cannot fabricate from other ideas—the idea represents an actual infinity; at best his mind

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