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(Premise) Hence the being than which no greater can be conceived exists in reality.
Hence, a being than which no greater can be conceived exists.
(Hence) (Even) the Fool cannot reasonably deny that that than which no greater can be conceived exists in reality (Hence) That than which no greater can be conceived exists in reality.
No one who believes that that than which no greater can be conceived exists in the understanding can reasonably believe that that than which no greater can be conceived exists only in the understanding.
But if any reasonable person must believe that that than which no greater can be conceived exists in reality, then surely it is the case that that than which no greater can be conceived exists in reality.
(Hence) (Even) the Fool believes that that than which no greater can be conceived exists in the understanding.
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But the body's properties, such as its weight and its colour and its shape, are qualities that cannot be conceived to exist in isolation: they must be the weight, colour and shape of a certain body.
And then the reductio argument is produced to establish that that than which no greater can be conceived cannot exist only in the understanding but must also possess the property of existing in reality as well (and all mention of the Fool, and what it is that the Fool believes, disappears).
Such goods can be conceived to exist whether or not there is a God, so the existence of pointless evils is, as far as anything said thus far goes, consistent with atheism.
For Desgabets, a thing truly conceived, actually exists.
But we are not dealing here with the distinction between separate substances that can be conceived to exist independently from one another.
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