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  1. The Latin text I have used for both theMonologion and theProslogion is from Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson ed. and tr.,Anselm of Canterbury (London: SCM Press, 1974), vol. 1. All translations are my own.

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  2. I trace these difficulties with the notion ofcausa sui also in my “God as Self-Explanatory”,Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (1980), 210–211.

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  3. See, for example, Kant’sCritique of Pure Reason, tr. N.K. Smith (New York, St Martin’s Press, 1965), pp. 500–507; G. E. Moore, “Is Existence a Predicate?”,Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society, Supp. Vol. 15 (1936), 175–188; John Hick, “God as Necessary Being”,Journal of Philosophy, 57 (1960), 725–734; and myAnalogy and Talking About God (Washington: University Press of America, 1978), pp. 67–77.

  4. Anselm’sDe veritate in Schmitt edition ofOpera omnia, t., 1, pp. 188–90.

  5. SeeMonologion, The Latin text I have used for both theMonologion and theProslogion is from ch. 18.

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  6. Monologion, The Latin text I have used for both theMonologion and theProslogion is from ch. 16 and 17Proslogion, ch. 18

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  7. Monologion, The Latin text I have used for both theMonologion and theProslogion is from ch. 22;Proslogion, ch. 22.

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Morreall, J. The aseity of God in St. Anselm. SOPH 23, 35–44 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02780884

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