Chapter II - That God truly exists.

Existence in understanding vs. existence in reality. The question is whether God exists "in reality" (apart from our minds), as well as "in our understanding."

Anselm defines God as the greatest conceivable being, not just the greatest being that happens to be around, but the greatest possible being. Even an atheist, Anselm believes, must have the idea of God, but he is a "fool" because he denies that there is anything in reality corresponding to his idea of God.

Anselm conceives of God as the perfect being, "that-than-which-a-greater-cannot-be-thought". He argues that when the fool says that God does not exist , the fool is thinking of God as being that-than-which-something-greater-can-be-conceived. Anselm then argues that the fool only has the idea of the GPB in his mind, and because he is not able to understand it to exist in reality he is not truly thinking of the GPB. To correctly think the idea of the

Chapter III - That God cannot be thought not to exist

Anselm's second proof of God's existence refers to the essence of a necessary being which happens to be what humans refer to as God.

Anselm's arguments offer two different concepts that are intended for the same result, to prove the existence of God. Both of his arguments are logical in premise and arrive at the same conclusion that God does exist.

God is different from anything in or out of the universe; different from anything else we could imagine; God is perfect; God's existence is necessary. The existence of all other things is merely contingent.

Contingent beings depend on something else for their existence. Contingent beings therefore can begin to be or cease to be at anytime. A being that necessarily exists cannot be thought not to exist. And so God, as the unsurpassable perfect being, must have necessary existence and cannot be thought of as not existing and therefore he must necessarily exist.

GPB, the mind must conceive of that being as existing both in understanding and in reality. Anselm argues that if the GPB exists in t

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