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Fifth Meditation Proof for God’s Existence (AT 65-68) Principle of predication: Whatever I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to the true and immutable nature of a thing may be predicated with certainty of that thing and is true of it. Application to geometry: T1. My idea of a triangle represents a true and immutable nature. T2. I clearly and distinctly perceive that it belongs to the true and immutable nature of a triangle to have the sum of its interior angles equal to two right angles. T3. Therefore, I may predicate with certainty of a triangle that the sum of its interior angles is equal to two right angles, and it is true of a triangle that the sum of its interior angles is equal to two right angles. Application to God’s existence: G1. My idea of God represents to me a true and immutable nature, that of a supremely perfect being. G2. Every perfection belongs to the nature of a supremely perfect being. G3. Necessary existence is a perfection. G4. Therefore, I clearly and distinctly perceive that it belongs to the true and immutable nature of God to exist necessarily. G5. Therefore, I may predicate with certainty of God that he exists necessarily and it is true that God necessarily exists.