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Certainly, the world's most divisive invention was conceived not to keep people in or out, but cows.
This independent being is "self-existent, that is, necessarily existing" (D 12, W 2.527), a conclusion he also reaches by arguing that space and time cannot be conceived not to exist and they are obviously not self-existent, so the substance on which they depend, God, must exist necessarily as well (D 13, W 2.527 528).
This contains the notion of a being that cannot be conceived not to exist.
He argued that if something can be conceived not to exist, then something greater can be conceived.
He argued that "existing" adds nothing (including perfection) to the essence of a being, and thus a "supremely perfect" being can be conceived not to exist.
Consequently, a thing than which nothing greater can be conceived cannot be conceived not to exist and so it must exist.
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