Why Could Descartes Not Appeal to Aquinas Arguments for the Existence

question 19

Multiple Choice

Why could Descartes not appeal to Aquinas arguments for the existence of God?

• A) He believed they were false
• B) Descartes lived before Aquinas
• C) They rested on claims about the external world
• D) They were Aristotelian in nature

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