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The Meditator restates the ontological argument for the existence of God in more straightforward, intuitive terms. It’s just self-evident to the Meditator that, if a being is perfect, one of its perfections is that it exists. Of course, this point probably isn’t obvious at all to modern readers. Why, we may ask, is existence so clearly a kind of perfection? In this way, ironically enough, it underlines the Meditator’s points about the dangers of obeying common wisdom (instead of sticking to rigorous rational analysis).
Indeed, the Meditator has already proven God’s existence once, so this second argument doesn’t seem to…