
#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
Within Reason
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The Ontological Argument for Imagining a Door That Exists in Reality
Anselm: The properties of doorness can be kind of maxed out in conceivably alone. But if you define a door as something that exists in reality, or you have a component that already presupposes that, then you are going to define it into existence. This is where the unicorn and the Spider-Man comes in. And does the hinge exist? In the mind, yes. It can also exist in reality. Anselm's not trying to say, imagine a being that exists inreality. That's not what he's doing. What he's doing is just imagine the greatest conceivable thing.
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