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Descartes’ ontological argument is a rationalist approach that seeks to prove the existence of God solely through thought, without recourse to experience. This argument plays not only a theological but also an epistemological and metaphysical role within Descartes’ philosophical system. As part of his effort to establish certainty in knowledge, the ontological argument attempts to ground the existence of God as a necessary and self-evident reality. Presented in detail in the fifth meditation of