Descartes argued that human beings are born with ideas of the three fundamental kinds of things in the universe:

a. sense perception, ideas and concepts.
b. God, minds and material bodies.
c. understanding, sense perception and material bodies.
d. God, material bodies and properties of material bodies


ANSWER: b

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