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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: into the joy of my Lord, three persons in one God, blessed for evermore. Amen. Note on the Argument of the Proslogion. The argument which Anselm embodied in the Proslogion may thus be stated. Whoever speaks of God, even if only, like the Fool in the Psalms, to say There is no God, must, if he is not content to use words without any meaning at all, attach some sense to the word God. Now the sense in which, as a matter of fact, this word is used, as well by those who deny as by those who affirm the real existence of what is denoted is this: That than which no greater can be conceived. Whoever asserts, however, that this does not exist, involves himself in a plain contradiction. For in asserting that that than which no greater can be conceived does not exist, he implies at once that he can conceive something greater, namely that which, beside being all that this is conceived to be, shall also be real.' It would lie outside my present task to discuss this argument at length. But as the reader may fairly ask what is thought of the argument by those who make the criticism of such reasonings their business, I will now add a few observations to what I have already said in the Introduction. I shall not indeed state in detail whether this or that philosopher accepted it or rejected it; for such a catalogue of views and doctrines is by itself a very barren and unprofitable sort of knowledge. But to mention some of the points on which the criticism of Anselm's argument might fasten and has fastened, may. well be of use in the way of guidance and suggestion, and this I will do, using technical expressions as little as I can, and assuming as little as I may a previous study of philosophy in my readers. I. It may be asked, Does the argument, as It stands, prove what it proposes to pr...
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