To arrive to this conclusion he makes the first

the mind can distinctly and visibly comprehend ( Descartes, 2010 ). For him, notions are obvious
when his mind has a shrill logical understanding of them and discrete when all ideas belonging to
these are absolutely excluded from them. He alludes God to be infinitely perfect through the use
of Causation Principle. Also, Descartes elaborates in one of his Meditations the reason why God
cannot be a liar and articulates that if he has a distinct and clear conception, then it has to be
factual because if otherwise, then God would be a deceiver and this is a contradiction from His

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infinite perfection. Therefore, Descartes’s initial principles states and implies that if he has
discrete and clear notion, then God has created it and it must be genuine.
To some extent, Leibniz concurs with Descartes that God is a boundless substance which
made and protects the finite world. However, Leibniz differs with Descartes about the essential
components of the world. The latter believes that there are profoundly two finite substances, the
minds and bodies. In the contrary, Leibniz disagrees that there are no bodies or extended
substances. He argues that nothing extended qualifies to be a substance since it lacks unity. In
other words, Leibniz implies that to be extended is to be alienated into parts and ultimately to be
an aggregate (Leibniz, 1989). In this light, Leibniz suggests that there is a whole continuum of