nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

abbot

monk

philosopher

theologian

innovator in the field of

philosophy

theology

cleric

priest

Catholic archbishop

Archbishop of Canterbury

religion

Catholicism

is able to exist just as a square circle exist (i.e. Mentally but incapable of being actualized without contradiction). By the same logic, God, or the greatest thing that one could imagine, if imagined, would be surpassed only by having that God exist in reality. Thus, by definition, it would be a contradiction in terms for the greatest thing existing to not be a real God.

is capable of being proved definitionally from the very definition of God.

ontological arguments attempt to show that we can deduce God's existence from, so to speak, the very definition of God.' (i.e.p.) . . .The key step in Anselm's 'Ontological Proof' for the existence of God is the definition of 'God,' . . . . this is non-empirical. the argument does not rely on going out and finding the existence of god in, say, the statistical unlikelyhood of the emergence of life. That would be an 'empircal' mode of argumentation Rather, the argument is based on definitions. Therefore it is what is called. 'ontological'

is simply a name for that over which nothing greater can be conceived.

that than which nothing greater can be conceived' [id quo maius cogitari nequit].

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