Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 8 hours ago·#3133
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What do you think of: it’s 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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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#527
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Well non-existence, by definition, can’t exist, right?

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 year ago·#547

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