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Saint Anselms definition of god

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“That than no greater which can be conceived”

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Anselms contradiction of the atheist

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Reductio ad absurdum

Anyone who claims to understand god definition and rejects his existence is stating a fallacy

As it is greater to exist in reality than in the mind

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Ganillos island

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Imagine the greatest possible island = proof you cant dream anything into existence as island isn’t real

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Plantinga

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Island = contingent 
God = neccesary 

Therefore incomparable

+ perfect island is subjective

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Decartes

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“Whatever belongs to the existence of something cannot be denied of it”

As a triangle has to have three sides, god must have existence

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Aquinas

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A priori arguments for gods existence fail as we cannot define him with our inferior human understanding

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Kant

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“Existence is not a predicate”

Existence adds nothing to the essence of a thing - eg) red coat analogy

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Plantinga and infinity

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There are infinite numbers of universes, all possibilities are actual somewhere

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Malcolm

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Existence is not a perfection, but the logical impossibility of non existence