Modal ontological cookie argument (based on the work of St. Anselm of Canterbury):
1. Imagine C, a perfect cookie.
2. C is, by definition, a confection than which nothing greater can be conceived (imagined).
3. Existence in reality is greater than existence in the mind.
4. C must exist in reality, if C did not then C would not be that which nothing greater can be conceived (imagined).
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