... reflections of goodness, knowledge and power. From this he concludes that this concept could not be 'factitious' or a creation of his mind since he is limited in such a way as not to comprehend such greatness, he is not infinite and so cannot be the author of ideas of the infinite. Neither can the concept have been obtained through adventitious means since even without any knowledge of religious convention the idea of a being of infinite perfection is still present in ones mind. Descartes argues that the idea of a supremely perfect being is innate and he argues from this certainty that only a being of such perfection could be the origin of this concept. "It is not astonishing that in creating me God should have endowed me with this idea, so that it would be like the mark of the craftsman impressed upon his work."1 So like a ...

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