... perfection of being true'1. We cannot say what is true because we are imperfect beings and prone to seeing things mistakenly. It is apparent that Descartes arguments are dependent on the reliability of human intuition seeing things as 'clearly and distinctly true'. In addition Descartes implies that for this intuition to exist there must be a God, for whose existence Descartes proposes two arguments. However prior to concluding there is a God, human intuition is required to accept the premises of the argument. This highlights the circularity found in Descartes' work. Descartes claims at the end of the Third Meditation that God cannot be a deceiver, since this would undermine his perfection. For this reason the idea of God is 'clearly and distinctly' true. In essence he is saying that which is maximally perfect cannot be deceptive because if this was not the case a contradiction could be observed. If the ...

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