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Anselm, Truth, and Necessary Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

William H. Baumer
Affiliation:
The University of North Dakota.

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1962

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References

page 257 note 1 Yolton, J. W., ‘Professor Malcolm on St Anselm, Belief, and Existence’, Philosophy, Vol. 36, 1961, pp. 367370CrossRefGoogle Scholar;Malcolm, N., ‘Anselm's Ontological Arguments’, Philosophhical Review, Vol. 69, 1960, pp. 4162CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Alston, W. P., ‘The Ontological Argument Revisited’, Philosophical Review, Vol. 69, 1960, pp. 452474.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 257 note 2 The quote is from McKeon's translation: R. McKeon, Selections From Medieval Philosophers, Vol. I, New York, 1929, pp. 153, 154. Anselm's Dialogous de Veritate is in J . P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completes, Series Latina, Vol. 158, cols. 467–486.

page 257 note 3 McKeon, op. cit., pp. 142–149. E. Gilson, ‘Sens et Nature de l'Argument de Saint Anselm’, Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Age, Neuvième Année, 1934, pp. 5–51, n.b. p. 10.

page 257 note 4 Gilson, op. cit., p. 15.

page 257 note 5 Yolton, op. cit., pp. 369–370.

page 258 note 1 Malcolm, op. cit., pp. 42, 50, 52.

page 258 note 2 Ibid., p. 45; cf. Anselm, Proslogion 2, 3.

page 258 note 3 My debt to Prof. J. R. Weinberg of the University of Wisconsin, who first pointed out to me the importance of Anselm's view of truth and directed me to Gilson's essay, must be acknowledged. He is not, of course, responsible for any errors in this note.