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Liber pro insipiente
work by Gaunilo
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discussed in biography
- In Gaunilo
Gaunilo’s Liber pro insipiente (“In Defense of the Fool”) was a critique of the rationality of Anselm’s assertion that the concept of “that than which nothing greater can be thought” (i.e., God) implies God’s existence. Gaunilo argued by analogy, pointing out that one’s concept of a…
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response to ontological argument
- In St. Anselm of Canterbury: Early life and career
…Gaunilo of Marmoutier, in the Liber pro insipiente, or “Book in Behalf of the Fool Who Says in His Heart There Is No God.” Gaunilo denied that an idea of a being includes existence in the objective order and that a direct intuition of God necessarily includes God’s existence. Anselm…
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