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Ontological argument
Anselm's second onotological argument
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Religious Studies
12th Grade
03/21/2012

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1. God is that being nothing greater than which be thought of.
Definition
This means that God is like the perfect island and so can never be exceeded by greatness and has the most positive predicates about it.
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2. Something which cannot be thought not to exist is greater than anything which can be thought not to exist.
Definition
This, in simple terms, means that we hope that every positive thing that occurs in the mind exists in reality.
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3. Therefore, it is impossible to think that this being cannot exist.
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We cannot think that God does not exist, as it has to be the best thing in existence.
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4. And this being we call 'God'.
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The term God means: the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe, which has the predicate of existence.
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