[lit-ideas] Re: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 13:20:30 -0230
Mike, is my poetry below any good?
I walk into our café.
She's not there.
I wait 2 hours for her to arrive.
12 croissons and 4 cafes-au-lait later,
I await her still.
The café is packed and yet there is nobody there.
Waiting ... waiting .. for Godot
Why is there nothing rather than something??
Cheers, Walter
Quoting dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>
> In a message dated 5/16/2014 1:01:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> As to why the universe is a something rather than a mere nothing, this is
> a separate question. Which I'll answer later.
> Donal
> Head hurts
>
> Excellent reply. I'll analyse it later, I hope, too.
>
> McEvoy ends his interesting pro-Popperian post,
>
> "As to why the universe is a something rather than a mere nothing, this is
> a separate question."
>
> Indeed.
>
> For we have two clauses here, in the subject line as per post sent by T.
> Fjeld:
>
> i. Why is there something rather than nothing?
>
> seems to _presuppose_, shall we say,
>
> ii. There is something, rather than nothing.
>
> And it was (ii) that we've been addressing so far. They 'why' question
> IMPLICATES, I'd like to say, an answer of the type:
>
> iii. There is something, rather than nothing, because R.
>
> where
>
> iv. R
>
> is a _proposition_ (e.g. "God exists", as I think is the implicature in T.
> Fjeld's post) or other. I thought of entitling the thing 'rationes
> essendi', or 'ratio essendi', and/or implicate Leibniz in the proceedings.
> Maybe
> tomorrow.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Speranza
>
>
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