Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, April 03, 2012, 21:46 (4595 days ago) @ David Turell

The key difference as I understand it, is that we seem to have radically different views on the notion of "nonexistence." 
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> Read this philosopher. Nothing as a philosophic concept.
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> http://www.thebestschools.org/bestschoolsblog/2012/02/23/what-part-nothing-understand/-He makes identical mistakes as you do:-"I can consistently imagine that nothing at all ever existed.-This means the universe is what philosophers call "contingent" (meaning not logically necessary)."-Reworded: "I can consistently imagine that nothing at all ever existed. -This means that God is what philosophers call "contingent" (meaning not logically necessary.)" -We're going to continue to drive dhw batty, but theologically speaking, the universe == God. We already agreed to that!-[EDIT]-Actually Krauss gets it wrong too. Nothing is nonexistence. All that talk of quantum field theory... no, sorry. That post, while supposing to discuss nothing, manages to discuss everything but.

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