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Saint Anselm’s proof for God’s existence in his Proslogion,as the label “ontological” retrospectively hung on it indicates, is usually treated as involving some sophisticated problem of, or a much less sophisticated tampering with, the concept of existence. In this paper I intend to approach Saint Anselm’s reasoning from a somewhat different angle.
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Klima, G. (2000). Saint Anselm’s Proof: A Problem of Reference, Intentional Identity and Mutual Understanding. In: HolmstrÖm-Hintikka, G. (eds) Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times. Synthese Library, vol 288. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4227-4_6
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