
#17 April 1st - Why I'm a Christian Now, with Stephen Woodford
Within Reason
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The Importance of Conceiving the Greatest Possible Being
Anselm: You think you can conceive of the greatest possible being, right? It makes sense to you logically, but I would say that I'm not convinced that that's true. There's a careful distinction that needs to be made here. And then if you don't think it applies to Spider-Man or Sherlock Holmes, we can do that too. So a pizza is going to have certain- Whatever you're saying when you say a maximally great pizza or a greatest conceivable pizza, whatever those properties are that you think makes it a greater pizza, again, that we an epistemic problem,. If there's an objective truth to it, we don't know whether it'll have
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