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A Thomistic Refutation of St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Emily Evans, Holy Apostles College In the eleventh century A.D., St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) constructed the first and perhaps most well-known ontological argument. St.