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According to David Hume, the idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of ____.

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Those qualities of goodness and wisdom.

Step-by-step explanation:

David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher who made this argument in his work called “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, that can be found specifically in the “Section Two: Of the Origin of Ideas” where he address the perceptions of the mind.

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