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One parody I expected to see, but didn’t, is the notion that instead of modifying the predicates on the “greatest possible X”, we can instead modify the word gr
by daynthelife 3y ago
One parody I expected to see, but didn’t, is the notion that instead of modifying the predicates on the “greatest possible X”, we can instead modify the word greatest.
For instance, suppose I define a custom quality “Quux”. An object is more quux the more purple it is, the more it resembles a unicorn, the more it exists, and the closer it is to the center of Time Square.
We can certainly conceive of a maximally quux object — imagine a purple unicorn in the middle of time square. Therefore, by Anselm’s argument, since quuxness is increasing with existence, there must actually be a purple unicorn in the middle of Time Square.