Recently, the
web-comic xkcd put out a one-panel one-liner that caught my immediate attention as a sometime scholar working on Anselm of Canterbury. He's often credited with originating the "ontological argument," in some important senses a misattribution, since that term comes into use much later, in the 18th century, and since Anselm's "
unum argumentum" is actually nearly the whole of the
Proslogion
, not just the second chapter -- there's even more to be said, but those are topics for...
Published on April 07, 2015 12:40