Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2005
Symposium on William Rowe's 'Can God be Free?'
Mark Owen Webb
Pages 55-58
In Defense of Anselm
A Reply to Truncellito
David Truncellito provides an analysis of Anselm’s ontological argument according to which Anselm’s use of the term “God” equivocates between purported reference to a being and reference to the idea of that being. I argue that this interpretation does not capture Anselm’s intent, and offer another analysis of the argument that charges Anselm with a different equivocation.