PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Gaunilo Of Marmoutiers, Ontological Argument
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Offers a reply to anselm on behalf of the fool , the person who doubts or denies the existence of god and who remains unconvinced by anselm"s ontological argument. A monk in the 11th century, published in behalf of the fool . If god"s existence is proven through the ontological argument, if something is the greatest conceivable in the mind, doesn"t mean that it really exists. That which is greater than everything, being already proved to exist in the mind, should exist not only in the mind but also in reality. The lost island : the greatest conceivable island and breaks down the logic and his point that the greatest would have to exist but it doesn"t exist it leads you to a false conclusion. Just because we have an idea of the greatest conceivable island, it doesn"t establish the existence of such a thing. This would establish other things that do not exist.
