... actually given it rather than just thinking about it in the mind? Hence God must exist according to Anselm, or else something greater must exist and this by the nature and definition of god is impossible: "If you are not this very thing, something can be conceived greater than you, which cannot be done"(Prosologian) Anselm's second form of the ontological argument states how Gods existence is uniquely necessary because as john hick suggests "God is defined in such a way that it is impossible to conceive of God not existing." Anselm describes this theory by saying, " something-than-which-a-greater-cannot-be-thought exists so truly then, that it cannot be even thought not to exist." Anselm also argued that even someone who disregards the concept of God to dismiss His existence and it is by the definition of God that Anselm argues Gods necessary existence in reality. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is a more modern philosopher who reformulates Anselm's ...

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