Ruth Marx, Rebecca Neale. 10. GAUNILO OF MARMOUTIERS GET INTO GAUNILO'S WORLD Quick Overview Gaunilo of Marmoutiers was an eleventh-century French Benedictine monk and contemporary of St Anselm. Little is known about Gaunilo beyond his ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers (994–1083) Gaunilo was a Benedictine monk at Marmoutiers Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his criticism of Anselm's ontological argument. Gaunilo uses a reductio ad absurdum argument. Gaunilo suggests ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers. The reply is the only known work of Gaunilo's and nothing much is known about this Benedictine monk. In the reply Gaunilo introduced arguably the most distinctive objections ever raised against the ontological ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers Anselm , Reply to Gaunilo , 89–91 parody of Proslogion 2 , 92–96 Gödel , 108-11 Kant , Critique of Pure Reason , 80 , 106–8 Leibniz , 104–6 , 108 Meinongian ontology , 98 , 99 modal logic , 88–91 , 96 , 103 , 109 ...
... Perhaps the best known are Gaunilo and Kant, but they are not alone in their criticisms. Gaunilo's reply to St Anselm Who was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers? Gaunilo of Marmoutiers was an eleventh-century French monk and contemporary.
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers . For Gaunilo , as for more than a few subsequent readers , the argument seemed absurd . A person can be familiar with the sound of the word god , he objected , without knowing what it means . Such a person would ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers responds “on behalf of the Fool.” Gaunilo's most important objections are: (a) That God cannot be meaningfully thought about by human beings (Paragraph 4). Anselm responds to this in parts of Replies 1, 2,8, and 9 ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers responds “on behalf of the Fool.” Gaunilo's most important objections are: (a) That God cannot be meaningfully thought about by human beings (Paragraph 4). Anselm responds to this in parts of Replies 1, 2,8, and 9 ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers issued a reply to Anselm's argument, Pro Insipiente, “On Behalf of the Fool.” Gaunilo tried to show Anselm's argument to be ineffective by arguing that one can apply Anselm's thinking to prove all sorts of things ...
... Gaunilo of Marmoutiers] we imagine a “Lost Island” [insula perdita] as plentiful in its riches as it is inexistent in reality, it is not “lost” except in the eyes of Gaunilo, who relies here on the familiar model of the existent as ...