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.

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.

(Logan Chipkin)

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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 1 year ago·#546

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Well non-existence, by definition, can’t exist, right? Rules itself out.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#530

Is non-existence really existing if there’s nothing at all?

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#532

If non-existence is to mean anything at all, I think that’s it, yes.