The term "begging the question" springs to mind... Descartes's argument is quite complicated (and, with a much broader definition of god than we typically use (almost a Force-like one, in fact), not nearly so easy to refute), but certainly this hyper-distilled version that you (and apparently philosophy students) cite is the classic question begging.
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Date: 2004-02-14 06:32 am (UTC)