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Ross Finlayson wrote:
> On 04/09/2025 07:21 AM, Richmond wrote:
>> What does 'exist' mean? Why suppose that it was ever possible for
>> nothing to exist?
>>
> 
> Well it can follow from consideration or contemplation/deliberation
> itself: on the universal, vis-a-vis the void, that there are examples
> since antiquity like 'nature abhors a vacuum', about creation and
> destruction vis-a-vis conservation, that considering "nothing" is
> the same as considering "everything".
> 
> It's sort of like when a given thing, is, everything that it is not.
> 
> 
> Then, this gets into things like why there's a principle of inversion
> instead of a principle of (non-)contradiction, that's sort of been
> a usual idea since antiquity, the principle of non-contradiction,
> yet instead, a principle of inversion can see that arrive and
> for reason and rationality and according to nature and reality.
> 
> So, really it's a question to answer for yourself, where though
> the usual "fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there
> something rather than nothing", then there's quite a bit of the
> canon and dogma and doctrine about it, to make inter-subjective
> accounts, vis-a-vis, usual personal individual ponderings.
> 
> 
> Anyways there's an idea that the universe exists simply because

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It exists because God created it.