From that basic premise in Latin—id quo maius cogitari nequit, or “that than which it is impossible to think anything greater”b—Anselm demonstrated, through logical rigor, that certain great-making attributes must follow. Even though later thinkers, some as colossal as Thomas Aquinas, took issue with Anselm’s ontological argument, nevertheless they too saw an unbreakable chain from God’s perfection to the rest of his attributes.
