13 ideas
4748 | Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel] |
16643 | Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura] |
16696 | Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura] |
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] |
21242 | If that than which a greater cannot be thought actually exists, that is greater than the mere idea [Anselm] |
21241 | Even the fool can hold 'a being than which none greater exists' in his understanding [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] |
20698 | Irenaeus says evil is necessary for perfect human development [Irenaeus, by Davies,B] |