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6. How did the modern theologian respond to Gaunilo's criticism?

  • The island would need a creator
  • The island does exist and it shows God must also exist
  • The island has no intrinsic maximum
  • The island does not exist God does

7. Anslem's argument was initially written as what?

  • A prayer/contemplation
  • A response to Gaunilo
  • A systematic argument
  • A response to Aquinas

8. What is meant by a predicate?

  • A quality something is observed to have
  • A quality something has by definition
  • A quality something is likely to have
  • A quality something does not have or lacks

9. How does Descartes' defined God?

  • Maximally great
  • The best thing a human can think of
  • A supremely perfect being
  • That than which nothing greater can be concieved

10. What is meant by an a priori argument?

  • Arguments or propositions established through reason
  • Arguments or propositions based on observation

11. Anslem's Ontological argument is found in which work?

  • Summa Theologica
  • Proslogion
  • Monologion
  • Natural Theology

12. What example did Gaunilo use to criticise Anslem's ontological argument?

  • The Perfect God
  • The Perfect World
  • The Perfect Island
  • The Perfect Person

13. Thomas Aquinas argued that the statement 'God exists' is...

  • Synthetic
  • Analytic

14. Why does Kant argue that existence cannot be a predicate?

  • Predicates must be physical
  • It has to be observed
  • It does not add anything to our understanding of an object or concept
  • Existence is subjective

15. Who wrote the response to Anslem entitled on Behalf of the Fool?

  • Plantinga
  • Gaunilo
  • Gassendi
  • Aquinas

16. The ontological argument is what type of argument for the existence of God?

  • A Priori
  • A Posteriori