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Re: Anselm summary
- Subject: Re: Anselm summary
- From: Pycyn@xxx.xxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 05:09:23 EDT
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