The ontological argument/Talk

My own objection to the ontological argument is simply this: The only thing that it proves, is that we can conceive the greatest conceivable being to really exist. If we conceive that this greatest conceivable being really exists, it does not get any greater in our conception by really existing outside my conception.

From a wholly different angle, the argument uses the premisse that we can conceive this greatest conceivable being. It is very much the question whether we can conceive the greatest conceivable being. I think many theists would agree if I said that God cannot be completely conceived by us at all. There is also the question whether there even exists something like a 'greatest conceivable being'. There might well be for every conceivable being a greater one. Or there might be two beings such that neither is greater than the other, nor any being that is greater than both.

-- Andre Engels