Explain Anselm ontological argument

... One argument used to rationally support the existence of God is the ontological argument. There are many forms of ontological arguments, but I'll only use a few different versions here, each one mainly derived from Anselm's approach. St Anslem was said to be the most influential thinker of the medieval Europe. Anselm's argument for the existence of God and is said to be a classic ontological argument. An ontological argument is a priori argument as it attempts to gather that God exists only by the use of intellectual insight and reasons. Anslem starts his argument b saying God 'that than which noting greater can be conceived.' According to this definition God, is the greatest, most perfect being possible. Then Anslem goes on further to argue that God must exist or it would not be 'that then which noting greater can be conceived. Anslem's has two arguments written in his book Proslogion. In his

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