Anselm of Canterbury was famous for putting forward a kind o…

Anselm of Canterbury was famous for putting forward a kind of argument for the existence of God that does not rely on any empirical premises. Anselm’s argument is based on the idea that God is greater than which no other can be thought. The argument is meant to establish the existence of God. The name of the argument is based on the Greek word for being which is Ontos.