On the ontological status of the object «that nothing greater can be imagined»

Abstract

The paper proposes to rethink a claim by Anselm of Canterbury about «that than which greater cannot be thought», taking into account some achievements of the modern analytic philosophy. An explication of this term in the context of the modern logico-semantic conceptions allows the author to arrive at a conclusion that the Anselm’s proof deals not with the real existence of Good, but rather with an a priori, linguistically connected obviousness of the God’s existence.