CAN WE PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD?

an sensory apparatus and our inability to properly grasp an appreciation of reality is overcome. Saint Anselm of Canterbury first formed this argument. In Anselm's words,
             1. "A being than which nothing greater can be conceived" (even a fool can grasp this concept)
             2. A fool would say that the concept of this being exists only in his mind and the minds of others, but not in reality. However, even the fool would admit that it is possible to conceive of this being existing in reality too.
             3. Now, a being that exists in reality is greater than one that exists only in the mind.
             4. Having admitted this, the fool can no longer hold to his original argument that "a being than which nothing greater can be conceived" only exists in the mind, because the "being than which nothing greater can be conceived" that exists in reality also, must be greater still. To hold the first view only, would be c
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