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Ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'The Ethics' and 'Proslogion'

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof
21243 An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm]
17169 Some things makes me conceive of it as a thing whose essence requires its existence [Spinoza]
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]
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]
21856 Spinoza says a substance of infinite attributes cannot fail to exist [Spinoza, by Lord]
17178 Denial of God is denial that his essence involves existence, which is absurd [Spinoza]
21858 God is being as such, and you cannot conceive of the non-existence of being [Spinoza, by Lord]
4820 God must necessarily exist, because no reason can be given for his non-existence [Spinoza]
28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
1420 Anselm's first proof fails because existence isn't a real predicate, so it can't be a perfection [Malcolm on Anselm]
4817 If a thing can be conceived as non-existing, its essence does not involve existence [Spinoza]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles
4827 Priests reject as heretics anyone who tries to understand miracles in a natural way [Spinoza]