Do you understand…TTWNGCBC
The subtleties of the logic TTWNGCBC residing in the understanding seems to imply the idea of potentiality where something can exist but yet not be known or expressed at a certain time. How is it possible that something is in the understanding yet it cannot be understood, specifically the idea that God exists? Anselm says that even the fool would agree that he can understand TTWNGCBC so it must be in his understanding because it is understood. If the idea that there cannot exist something greater than God is imagined than it can also be imagined to be in reality too which is said by Anselm to be greater than imagining, and because of this, a leap is made to conclude that there must exist in the understanding and also in reality a greatest conception which is thought to be God. However, a problem arises in that the greater thing does not have to be God and in my opinion does not have to exist in reality. I can conceive of many things by compounding my ideas in the imagination, but these things do not have to exist in reality too, just because I can imagine it, understand it and conceive it. Anselm also plays on the idea that reality is greater than the imagination so if the idea of God is pulled from the imagination to reality somehow, the idea is given more validity, but this is not possible says the fool, but I ask who is fooling who?
