Footnote
J. Kellenberger, “The Ontological Principle and God's Existence”,Philosophy, 45 (1970), p. 282.
J. Kellenberger, (op. cit.) “. who states this objection very clearly. The objection is employed by Jerome Shaffer (“Existence, Predication, and the Ontological Argument”,Mind LXXI (1962)), by Terence Penelhum (“Descartes' Ontological Argument”,Fact and Existence, ed. by J. Margolis, Oxford, Blackwell, 1960), and others. It can be traced to Caterus. (See first set of objections to Descartes'Meditations.)
Cf. Anthony Kenny, (op. cit.) “.
Anthony Kenny, (Ibid.) “. Robert Adams, “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments”,The Philosophical Review, LXXX (1971).
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Wainwright, W.J. Unihorses and the ontological argument. SOPH 17, 27–32 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02798116
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