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Anselm’s Proof and Some Problems of Meaning and Reference
From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique
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What exists necessarily in the strongest sense of necessarily is surely what could not under any circumstances fail to exist. And such an entity must be compatible with anything else which could possibly (again, in the strongest sense of possibly) exist. It cannot, that is to say, have any limiting ‘existence conditions.’ But if that is so, the existence of such a being cannot, seemingly, make any différence to anything else.
Contributors
Leslie Armour
Leslie Armour is Professer Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa and author of "Infini Rien": Pascal's Wager and the Human Paradox (1993), Being and Idea: Developments of Some Themes in Spinoza and Hegel (1992), The Idea of Canada and the Crisis of Community (1981), The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850-1950 (1981), The Conceptualization of the Inner Life (with Edward T. Bartlett) (1980), Logic and Reality: an Investigation into the Idea of a Dialectical System (1972), The Concept of Truth (1969), and The Rational and the Real: an Essay in Metaphysics (1962). He has been recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
