Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bigfoot, Ontological Argument, Williams Fw13

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The ontological argument for the existence of god: some history and some language, the person who formulated this argument: anselm of canterbury. Ecclesiastical statesman - archbishop of canterbury: "argument" has two meanings, a verbal disagreement, a reasoned support of a given idea, "ontological" just means having to do with being or having to do with existence . Onto comes from the present particle of the greek verb to be : digression on sasquatches: definition and existence. A sasquatch is (df. ) a large, hairy, gorilla like creature inhabiting the mountains of the west coast of. North america, and preferring to avoid contact with humans. Notice that we can talk about sasquatches, debate about them, fill in details, etc, while still leaving the question open to whether they exist or not. Notice that both pro-sasquatchers and anti-sasquatchers can agree on the definition of sasquatch, while leaving the question if they exist, out: expounding the argument, the argument:

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