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'After Finitude', 'On Copernicanism and Relativity of Motion' and 'Proslogion'
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
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Conceiving a greater being than God leads to absurdity [Anselm]
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Even the fool can hold 'a being than which none greater exists' in his understanding [Anselm]
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If that than which a greater cannot be thought actually exists, that is greater than the mere idea [Anselm]
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A perfection must be independent and unlimited, and the necessary existence of Anselm's second proof gives this [Malcolm on Anselm]
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The word 'God' can be denied, but understanding shows God must exist [Anselm]
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Guanilo says a supremely fertile island must exist, just because we can conceive it [Anselm]
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Nonexistence is impossible for the greatest thinkable thing, which has no beginning or end [Anselm]
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The ontological proof of a necessary God ensures a reality external to the mind [Meillassoux]
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An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
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Anselm's first proof fails because existence isn't a real predicate, so it can't be a perfection [Malcolm on Anselm]
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28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
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Now that the absolute is unthinkable, even atheism is just another religious belief (though nihilist) [Meillassoux]
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