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... idea ? Anselm held that this being must exist in reality as well as in idea , for to say that the most perfect being exists only in idea involves a contradiction . It would not be most perfect if it existed only in idea . Suppose that ...
... idea ? Anselm held that this being must exist in reality as well as in idea , for to say that the most perfect being exists only in idea involves a contradiction . It would not be most perfect if it existed only in idea . Suppose that ...
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William Thomas Jones. by analysis of this idea we can prove the existence of the object that the idea represents . " Granted that everyone understands that by this name God is signified something than which nothing greater can be thought ...
William Thomas Jones. by analysis of this idea we can prove the existence of the object that the idea represents . " Granted that everyone understands that by this name God is signified something than which nothing greater can be thought ...
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... ideas . When these ideas conflict , it is not easy to say which represent Plato the philosopher and which Plato the ... idea of a university . For a medieval university was simply the concrete embodiment of the Thomistic Summa , or ...
... ideas . When these ideas conflict , it is not easy to say which represent Plato the philosopher and which Plato the ... idea of a university . For a medieval university was simply the concrete embodiment of the Thomistic Summa , or ...
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