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Ante Škugor addressed criticism #532.
About 2 months ago · ‘Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?’#532 · Dennis Hackethal, about 2 months agoIf non-existence is to mean anything at all, I think that’s it, yes.
People use the same argument to "prove" the existence of God. The existence of anything can then be proved simply by including in the definition that it must exist. Example: Dragons must exist because I can define "dragon" as what is traditionally thought of a dragon, plus the claim that it exists.
Also you can't at the same time say that non-existence is ruled out on logical grounds, and then define it as something that's clearly possible, namely the absence of the universe. It's conflating an abstract concept for a physical one.