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Tag: Ontological Arguments

St. Anselm’s version of the Ontological Argument and Gaunilo’s objection to it

Posted on March 9, 2018 by JL Admin

Anselm of Canterbury was one of the early promoters of the Ontological Argument supporting the existence of God. He argues that God exists on the basis that ‘something-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought’ should necessarily exist in reality. In other words, just as anything a painter can conceive of can be materialized into a painting, the conception of God is…

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