Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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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.
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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Well non-existence, by definition, can’t exist, right? Rules itself out.
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Is non-existence really existing if there’s nothing at all?
(Logan Chipkin)
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