Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

On 04/09/2025 07:21 AM, Richmond wrote:

What does 'exist' mean? Why suppose that it was ever possible for
nothing to exist?
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 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