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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 05:09:23 EDT
From: Pycyn@aol.com
Subject: Re: Anselm summary
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No essay intended, just a translation that will do justice both to the 
original and to the subsequent commentary.  Kant's "solution" to the eternal 
question "Just what is wrong with the ontological argument?" is not 
particularly relevant, since he was working off of Descartes' version, not 
Anselm's  -- and, of course, existence is a predicate in Lojban (and English 
and German) and, as Kant should have noticed (if he had noticed anything, 
which is doubtful), an existent Thaler differs from an imaginary one in that 
it can actually buy something.
pc