... involve adopting a nonsensical argument. Anselm's starting point was to propose a definition of the word 'God'. From this point he tried to show that it is absurd to suggest that God does not exist. His argument was in two parts, formed around an objection raised by another monk. Anselm says 'God is the thought than which nothing greater can be thought'. Even the suggestion that there is no God requires the concept of God. Since the greatest thought must have an equivalent reality to be greater than even the least significant thing in reality, for God to be the greatest thought, God must exist. Anselm also says "I have written the following treatise (what I am writing) in the person of one who...seeks to understand what he believes". God must exist in reality, and not just in the mind because it may be hard to find something greater than ...

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