In this section descartes talks about how God is the only being that is independent because he is the one that dictates what is right and wrong. Therefore we, all of humanity are dependent on God in order to dictate. This makes us incomplete. He goes on to explain that our existence completely depends on him. We depend on him so muc in fact that we must believe that he will never decieve or trick us.
He goes on to come to the first problem of the 4th meditation. He thinks that if all that he gets from God is true and right then in turn he could never make a mistake. But then again we all know that everyone makes mistakes. This puzzles Descartes. He states that once he reflects on himself, he realizes he has made many mistakes. Could he just have stumbled over the fact that this may prove that God's existence may not be so??
After the whole question of error he says that we must have a defect and that in turn only God is perfect.
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I also agree with you that this can prove that God does not exist because through my readings he said that he must refrain from making any mistakes, therefore he is trying not to make mistakes. And you added that he said if everything we get from God is true then we can't make mistakes, which is a good point because then why is he trying not to make mistakes if our knowledge from God supposedly should never let him make mistakes.
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