[daynthelife]

One parody I expected to see, but didn’t, is the notion that instead of modifying the predicates on the “greatest possible X”, we can instead modify the word greatest.

For instance, suppose I define a custom quality “Quux”. An object is more quux the more purple it is, the more it resembles a unicorn, the more it exists, and the closer it is to the center of Time Square.

We can certainly conceive of a maximally quux object — imagine a purple unicorn in the middle of time square. Therefore, by Anselm’s argument, since quuxness is increasing with existence, there must actually be a purple unicorn in the middle of Time Square.