15 ideas
4748 | Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel] |
19000 | Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap] |
17897 | Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap] |
20887 | A rape disregards the status of being a person - but so does all assault [Foa] |
20888 | Rape of children is dreadful, but no one thinks children should have a right of consent [Foa] |
20889 | If men should lust and women shouldn't, that makes rape the prevalent sexual model [Foa] |
21243 | An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm] |
21244 | Conceiving a greater being than God leads to absurdity [Anselm] |
21241 | Even the fool can hold 'a being than which none greater exists' in his understanding [Anselm] |
21242 | If that than which a greater cannot be thought actually exists, that is greater than the mere idea [Anselm] |
1421 | A perfection must be independent and unlimited, and the necessary existence of Anselm's second proof gives this [Malcolm on Anselm] |
21245 | The word 'God' can be denied, but understanding shows God must exist [Anselm] |
21246 | Guanilo says a supremely fertile island must exist, just because we can conceive it [Anselm] |
21247 | Nonexistence is impossible for the greatest thinkable thing, which has no beginning or end [Anselm] |
1420 | Anselm's first proof fails because existence isn't a real predicate, so it can't be a perfection [Malcolm on Anselm] |