something about proving the most perfect being, this is Anselm's proof. pretty good REDUCTIO.* here it goes:
a) G is a being such that none greater can be imagined,
b) G exists as an idea in the mind (Gm),
c) if G exists as an idea in the mind and in reality, then ceteris paribus this union is greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind. we have,
GmUGr >Gm (U means union) do you agree? now comes a conditional:
d) if G existed only in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God (that is, a greatest possible being that does exist),
given Gm (alone) then we can imagine a Gk > G
But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God because of (a)
Therefore, God exists.
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*Reductio is a great tool to prove axioms.
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