Anselm and the Ontological Argument

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1: What sort of an argument is the Ontological Argument?

A posteriori
A priori
A theistic
A quinas

2: St Anselm was Archbishop of where?

York
Canterbury
Wales
Bec

3: Anselm wrote his Ontological Argument in which book?

Apology
Summa Theologica
Summum Bonum
Proslogion

4: What is Anselm trying to say about God's existence? Is it...

Contingent
Necessary
Numinous
Catholic

5: Which does Anselm say?

God is something rather than nothing
God is not that than which no great can be conceived
God is a being greater than that which can be conceived
God is that than which no greater can be conceived

6: Name the monk who opposed Anselm's first argument.

Gaunilo
Gildas
Galileo
Gilbert

7: In opposing Anselm, the philosopher in question 6 used one of the following illustrations to show his opposition to Anselm's argument...was it ?

Triangle
Unicorn
Vampire
Island

8: Which 16th century scholar supported the Ontological proof of God's existence?

Kant
Copleston
Descartes
Plantinga

9: Who felt that "existence" when used with God, could not be a "predicate?"

Kalam
Kant
Paley
Descartes

10: What name is given to an argument put forward by Rene Descates?

Cartesian
Thomist
Renaissance
Meditation

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