[[Kant]] weighed in against Descartes' version, challenging the premise that existence is a predicate of perfection. Kant said he could imagine a hundred thalers (coins) in such great detail that whether or not they actually existed was arbitrary, as there was no difference other than this between the imagined and the existent thalers.
[[Davies]] insisted that Anselm's argument [[begs the question]]- it assumes what it sets out to prove. In other words, if a God existed, he would be supremely perfect, and would therefore exist. In explicit form, the first might be construed to mean 'The concept of God is the most supremely perfect concept'. It has been suggested that the ontological argument is therefore [[fatally flawed|flawed]] in that it uses [[equivocation]] to progress from a [[concept of God]] to an existent property of God to an [[God|existent God]], and flawed in that the entire argument collapses irreparably once this is exposed.
== Notes ==
[[Category: Arguments for the existence of God]]
[[Category:Philosophy]]
==Further Reading==
[[Essay: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?]]
[[Essay: One person's view of the Ontological Argument]]