the ontological argument scholars
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- Arguments based on reason (Ontological argument) scholars
- Anselm
- that which nothing greater can be conceived
- By definition, God is a being greater than which cannot be conceived. I can conceive of such a being. It is greater to exist than not to exist. Therefore, God must exist.
- Hume and A. J Ayer
- can't be verified
- Guanilo
- Perfect island- you can use Anselm's argument to imagine anything into existence
- Descartes
- God is a supremely perfect being
- a predicate of perfection is existence so God exists
- Kant
- existence is not a predicate
- replies directly to Descartes
- Anselm
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