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Full Idea
Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God.
Gist of Idea
Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God
Source
report of Anselm (De Veritate (On Truth) [1095]) by Pascal Engel - Truth §1.6
Book Ref
Engel,Pascal: 'Truth' [Acumen 2002], p.37
A Reaction
An interesting claim, perhaps, depending on what it means. God decrees truth, God knows all truth, God makes truth possible, God connects us to the world, God is the world…?
| 4748 | Anselm of Canterbury identified truth with God [Anselm, by Engel] |
| 1420 | Anselm's first proof fails because existence isn't a real predicate, so it can't be a perfection [Malcolm on 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] |
| 21244 | Conceiving a greater being than God leads to absurdity [Anselm] |
| 1421 | A perfection must be independent and unlimited, and the necessary existence of Anselm's second proof gives this [Malcolm on Anselm] |
| 21243 | An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [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] |