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"The Ontological Argument is a logical sleight of hand." Discuss The ontological argument for the existence of God is perhaps the only argument which makes use of logic and a priori statements to support its reasoning. If the argument is successful, it proves that God's existence is logically necessary, and therefore, the existence of God is proven. The first thing the ontological argument tries to do is to provide a definition for the word 'God'. This is necessary in order to justify that the statement 'God exists' is true - in other words, it is an analytic statement, which supporters of the argument accept to be true. St. Anselm of Canterbury defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived," and maintained that this definition would be accepted by both believers and non-believers. He states that God exists in the mind, but he must also exist in reality, because God...

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