Gaunilo's Lost Island thought experiment is intended to show that
A) Anselm's style of reasoning is correct, but he comes to the wrong conclusion.
B) if Anselm's style of reasoning were correct, you could prove that God made the greatest island possible.
C) there is such a thing as the greatest island possible.
D) if Anselm's style of reasoning were correct, you could prove that the greatest island possible exists.

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Gaunilo's Lost Island thought experiment critiques Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God by suggesting that if Anselm's reasoning were valid, it could be used to prove the existence of a greatest possible island, which seems absurd. This demonstrates a flaw in Anselm's argument by analogy.

Gaunilo's Lost Island Thought Experiment Is Intended to Show That