Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

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Dennis HackethalOP, revised by Knut Sondre Sæbø 9 months ago·#1194
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What do you think of: it’s the fact that the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist. Nothing can’t exist, so the only alternative that’s left is for something to exist.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 9 months ago·#1202

[…] it’s the fact that the law of the excluded middle that constrains the universe to exist.

That isn’t a sentence.

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