# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gaunilo-of-marmoutiers
# Generated: 2026-08-16T08:46:33.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gaunilo-of-marmoutiers"
name: "Gaunilo of Marmoutiers"
slug: "gaunilo-of-marmoutiers"
description: "Gaunilo or Gaunillon was a Benedictine monk of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his contemporary criticism of the ontological argument for the existence of God which appeared in St. Anselm's Proslogion. In his work In Behalf of the Fool, Gaunilo contends that St. Anselm's ontological argument fails because logic of the same kind would force one to conclude many things exist which certainly do not. An empiricist, Gaunilo thought that the human intellect is only able to comprehend information provided by the senses."
tagline: "French philosopher"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "994"
deathDate: "1083"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.891254666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gaunilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilo_of_Marmoutiers"
    title: "Gaunilo of Marmoutiers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilo"
    title: "Gaunilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilon"
    title: "Gaunilon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilone"
    title: "Gaunilone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilo_van_Marmoutiers"
    title: "Gaunilo van Marmoutiers"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilon"
    title: "Gaunilon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%B8%D0%B7_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%82%D1%8C%D0%B5"
    title: "Гаунило из Мармутье"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilo"
    title: "Gaunilo"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump