Anselm of Canterbury's philosophical-devotional work containing the ontological argument — the first a priori proof of God's existence.
The ontological argument: God, defined as that than which nothing greater can be conceived, must exist in reality and not merely in the mind, because existing in reality is greater than existing in the mind alone.
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