(March 7, 2016 at 9:05 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 4, 2016 at 6:05 pm)The Inquisition Wrote: Anselm basically gives the game away with the statement "the greatest conceivable being". Yes, god comes from your imagination.The terminology of the Scholastics was highly developed and precise. In the context of Scholasticism, to conceive of something means something different from imagining it.
I don't think that really addresses his point, though. Whether the stories of the bible, the Kalam Cosmological argument, or Aquinas' Five Ways, God never emerges from a bunch of fictional mind stuff. He never evinces himself as something real and concrete.
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