Ontological argument

Which of these apply to the ontological argument?

• A priori argument

• A posteriori argument

• Deductive argument

• Abductive argument

Which book of the old testament, calling unbelief in God foolish, does Anselm quote supporting his ontological argument?

• Deuteronomy

• Isaiah

• Psalms

• Proverbs

Which of these religious philosophers explicitly understand God as 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived' in their argument?

• St Anselm of Canterbury

• Rene Descartes

• Norman Malcolm

• Thomas Aquinas

Which of these philosophers didn't think the ontological argument could work because God is so far beyond what we can conceive?

• Saint Anselm of Canterbury

• Rene Descartes

• Norman Malcolm

• Thomas Aquinas

What parody of the ontological argument did Gaunilo put forth against Anselm?

• A perfect island

• A perfect pizza

• A perfect kit kat

• A perfect Rene Descartes in his final form

Which of these did Kant think was NOT a predicate (or a property)?

• The three sides of a triangle

• Goodness

• Existence

• Omnipotence

Which of these atheist philosophers can we see making the 'denial implies a contradiction test' against the ontological argument?

• David Hume

• Bertrand Russell

• A.Y. Ayer

• J.L. Mackie

Which critic of the ontological argument used the example of Thaler coins in arguing 'existence adds nothing to the concept of a thing'?

• Gaunilo

• Immanuel Kant

• David Hume

• Bertrand Russell

Which 3 of these 4 possibilities does Norman Malcolm take himself to have eliminated in his modal ontological argument?

• God's existence is necessarily true.

• God's existence is contingently true.

• God's existence is necessarily false.

• God's existence is contingently false.

Which of these objections to ontological arguments apply to Norman Malcolm's modal ontological argument?

• The perfect island parody

• 'Existence is not a predicate'

• God is an impossible being (the concept of God is incoherent)

• John Hick's charge of equivocation between logical and ontological necessity