Reference no: EM133404120
Consider the following version of Anselm's argument, produced by Rowe:
1. God exists in the understanding.
2. God might have existed in reality (God is a possible being).
3. If something exists only in the understanding and might have existed in reality, then it might have been greater than it is.
4. Suppose God exists only in the understanding.
5. God might have been greater than he is. (2, 4, and 3)
6. God is a being than which a greater is possible. (5)
7. The being than which none greater is possible is a being than which a greater is possible. (6 and the definition of God)
8. It is false that God exists only in the understanding.
9. God exists in reality as well as in the understanding. (1, 8)
A. Explain how 5 is supposed to follow from 2, 4, and 3.