OK, Norman,
here is my challenge to your 'new' question to answer
without retrospection or self-reference:
Why do we speculate?
And don't you speculate too long on the answer.
John M
--- Norman Samish <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied to my question. This
> question has bothered me for years, and I have hopes
> that some progress can be made towards an answer.
>
> I've heard some interesting concepts, including:
> (1) "Numbers must exist, therefore 'something' must
> exist."
> (2) "Something exists because Nothingness cannot
> non-Exist."
>
> Perhaps the above two are equivalent.
>
> With respect to (1) above, why must numbers exist?
>
> With respect to (2) above, why can't "nothingness"
> exist? The trivial answer is that even "nothing" is
> "something." However, I don't think that this
> addresses the real question.
>
> A state of pure "NO THING" would forbid even the
> existence of numbers, or of empty space, or of an
> empty set. It would be non-existence.
>
> Non-existence seems so much simpler than the
> infinity of things, both material and immaterial,
> that surrounds us. So why are things here? (I'm
> grateful that they are, of course.)
>
> Is this a self-consistent, if unanswerable,
> question?
>
> Norman
>
>
>
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