Is Existence a Predicate in Anselm's Argument?
One of the most annoying things to many a student of St Anselm's Proslogion is the way in which many philosophers assume that they can make Anselm's argument disappear simply by uttering the incantation, Existence is not a predicate'. Some recent studies of the argument1 have tried t...
| Published in: | Religious studies |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1966]
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Religious studies
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| Summary: | One of the most annoying things to many a student of St Anselm's Proslogion is the way in which many philosophers assume that they can make Anselm's argument disappear simply by uttering the incantation, Existence is not a predicate'. Some recent studies of the argument1 have tried to rescue it from Kant's dictum by showing that this criticism does not apply to Anselm's so-called second' ontological argument. This argument appears in chapter III of Proslogion and depends on a distinction between necessary existence' and contingent existence'. Both Malcolm and Hartshorne are content, however, to let the better known first' argument (Proslogion, chapter II) rest in the oblivion to which Kant assigned it. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002638 |