In it, one begins with the concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived. To th
In it, one begins with the concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived. To think of such a being as existing only in thought and not also in reality involves a contradiction, since a being that lacks real existence is not a being than which none greater can be conceived. A yet greater being would be one with the further attribute of existence. Thus the unsurpassably perfect being must exist; otherwise it would not be unsurpassably perfect. FTP, this is what argument for the existence of God first clearly formulated in the Proslogion by St. Anselm?
In it, one begins with the concept of God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived.