Gaunilo's Criticisms of the Ontological Argument
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- Gaunilo's Criticisms of The Ontological Argument
- French monk
- Contempory of Anselm
- On Behalf of the Fool
- parody of the Perfect Island
- 'it is never legitimate to pass from the realm of concepts to the realm of existents'
- Parallel argument
- reductio ad absurdum argument
- cannot define things into existence
- Anselm's possible reply
- unlike the island, God has necessay existence
- there is no 'intrinsic maxim' to Gaunilo's perfect island
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