Why Does Anything Exist? In Search of the Best Possible Answer
Rasmussen develops a new answer to the question, "Why does anything exist?" He begins by describing a puzzle about how anything can exist. The puzzle motivates the quest to explain things as far as one can. To solve the puzzle, Rasmussen describes a sequence of scenes in a story about exis...
| Autres titres: | "Essays in Honour of Dean Zimmerman" |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2024
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TheoLogica
Année: 2024, Volume: 8, Numéro: 2, Pages: 1-14 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Principle of sufficient reason
B Puzzle of existence B Naturalism B Absolute perfection B Argument from contingency |
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| Résumé: | Rasmussen develops a new answer to the question, "Why does anything exist?" He begins by describing a puzzle about how anything can exist. The puzzle motivates the quest to explain things as far as one can. To solve the puzzle, Rasmussen describes a sequence of scenes in a story about existence. The story brings to light a three-pronged explanation of existence: (i) things exist because it is impossible for nothing to have existed, (ii) it is impossible for nothing to have existed because there is a foundational reality that cannot not exist, and (iii) such a foundation would have a certain nature—to be specified—that allows it to be foundational. Rasmussen considers how this theory of fundamental reality can incorporate other large scale theories, including Platonism, axiarchism, and naturalism. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i2.77433 |