Anselm
1. In what way does this demonstrate that reason is ontological (applies to being as well as thought)?
2. Can the laws of thought be only laws of thought or are they also laws of being?
3. Does Anselm's argument get to the conclusion of God as defined in theism, or something else?
from: http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-arg/#H2
[Even a] fool, when he hears of … a being than which nothing greater can be conceived … understands what he hears, and what he understands is in his understanding.… And assuredly that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, cannot exist in the understanding alone. For suppose it exists in the understanding alone: then it can be conceived to exist in reality; which is greater.… Therefore, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, exists in the understanding alone, the very being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, is one, than which a greater can be conceived. But obviously this is impossible. Hence, there is no doubt that there exists a being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, and it exists both in the understanding and in reality.
