Anselm's Ontological Argument
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- Anselm's Ontological Argument
- a priori
- based on reason and logic alone
- Proslogions
- God is 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived'
- Psalms 14:1
- 'The fool says in his heart "there is no God"'
- First Conclusion
- God must exist in the mind (in intellectu) as well as in reality (in re)
- Second Conclusion
- God has necessary existence
- it is possible to conceive of a being that cannot not exist
- God has necessary existence
- ontos (being) logos (study of)
- Analytic Statment
- "God exists"
- a statement that is impossible to doubt
- "I believe so that I may understand"
- faith seeking
- a priori
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