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{{Short description|Argument for the existence of God}}
{{Descartes}}
The '''trademark argument'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803105212460;jsessionid=15F721D46D9188DBA5ED795F13FB6644|title=trademark argument|work=[[The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy]]|access-date=May 2, 2023}}</ref> is an ''[[a priori and a posteriori|a priori]]'' [[argument]] for the [[existence of God]] developed by the French philosopher and mathematician
In the [[Meditations on First Philosophy|''Meditations'']] Descartes provides two arguments for the existence of God. In Meditation V he presents a version of the [[ontological argument]] which attempts to deduce the existence of God from the nature of God; in Meditation III he presents an argument for the existence of God from one of the effects of God's activity. Descartes cannot start with the existence of the world or with some feature of the world for, at this stage of his argument, he has not established that the world exists. Instead, he starts with the fact that he has an idea of God and concludes "that the mere fact that I exist and have within me an idea of a most perfect being, that is, God, provides a very clear proof that God indeed exists." He says, "it is no surprise that God, in creating me, should have placed this idea in me to be, as it were, the mark of the craftsman stamped on his work."
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