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 revised about 1 year ago·#525
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I don’t see why nonexistence cannot also be a logical possibility.

If nonexistence is logically possible, and existence is logically possible, we need to explain why the latter has been physicalized in the first place.

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Knut Sondre Sæbø, 9 months ago·#1195

Logical possibilities and possible world frameworks, only works for potential states "inside" the universe right? The state of there being something or nothing in the universe doesn't have a "causal start", because the fact of something existing is an "eternal property" of the universe.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 9 months ago·#1209

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