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Ontological literally means "concerned with being". The ontological argument strives to establish the existence of a being, God. This argument is "a priori", which means prior to experience, as it attempts to argue for the existence of God via analytical existential propositions, i.e. arguing through language to prove that God is true, or exists by definition. Anselm argued via "reductio ad absurdum" that denying the existence of God would form some kind of self-contradiction. In his proslogion chapter 2 he argued deductively for the existence of God through first creating the definition: "God is that which nothing greater can be conceived". He stated that because it is greater to exist in both understanding and reality than in just understanding alone, God's existence is true by definition. Anselm also put forward a second form of this argument, keeping the same definition of God as "that which nothing greater can be conceived. He...

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