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Biographical note: A. D. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109 CE), in his work Proslogion, originated the “Anselm’s Other Argument stakes an original claim in this debate, and takes it further. There is a second a priori argument in Anselm (specifically in the Reply), A. D. Smith contends, but it is not the modal argument past scholars have identified. This second argument surfaces in a number of forms, though always turning on certain deep, interrelated metaphysical issues.