From Pycyn@xxx.xxx Fri Sep 3 02:09:23 1999 X-Digest-Num: 229 Message-ID: <44114.229.1262.959273825@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 05:09:23 EDT From: Pycyn@xxx.xxx Subject: Re: Anselm summary 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