PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ontological Argument
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Key concept word by (or taken for granted by) anselm in his ontological argument: Types of being (that we are able to talk about): being that never came into existence and cant go out of existence. Necessary being- a being that cannot not be (is not able not to be) Possible being (or contingent being)-a being that can not be (is able not to be) Impossible being-a being that cannot be: distinction between a being than which no existing being is greater, and a being than which no conceivable being is greater. Between what you take to actually be in existence and what you can conceive of (logical, no internal contradiction, is conceivable: two types of existence, the concept of greatness . Can mean size or amount (ex-great deal of food) Can be used with sarcasm in attempt to convey opposite of what mean. Anselm, however, uses great as a technical term.
