Saint Anselm's Argument For The Existence Of God

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Many people in the past and present have been arguing whether god exists. Saint Anselm was one of those people who argued that God did in fact exist. His reasoning behind his existence comes by contradicting his own words to provide a conclusion. One of his premises claims to say along the lines of: God is something than which nothing greater can be thought of. Premise two is: things exist only in the mind or not just in the mind but also in reality. It is greater to exist in both mind and reality than just the mind itself is premise three. If a person were to assume that only in the mind God exist, then there is a chance that they can think that there is a being greater than god. Therefore, the conclusion will be that God is not something

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