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| 14296 | Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine] |
| 22594 | In 1794 France all individual and legal rights were suppressed by the general will [Dunt] |
| 22602 | Over several centuries a set of eight main liberal values was established [Dunt] |
| 22596 | No government, or the whole nation, can control an individual beyond legitimate scope [Dunt] |
| 22603 | Laissez-faire liberalism failed to give people the protections and freedoms needed for a good life [Dunt] |
| 22592 | Nationalism pretends that we can only have a single identity [Dunt] |
| 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] |
| 21243 | An existing thing is even greater if its non-existence is inconceivable [Anselm] |
| 1420 | Anselm's first proof fails because existence isn't a real predicate, so it can't be a perfection [Malcolm on Anselm] |