Being From Nothingness

Section 1: The Axiom

1.1 The Question Reframed

"Why is there something rather than nothing?" This question, posed by Leibniz and echoed through centuries of philosophy, is typically treated as the deepest of mysteries—perhaps unanswerable, perhaps pointing toward transcendent explanation.

We propose a different approach: the question contains a false presupposition. It assumes that nothingness is a coherent alternative to existence, a state that might have obtained but mysteriously does not. We argue that absolute nothingness is not a coherent alternative. It is logically impossible. The question is not "why something rather than nothing?" but "what must existence be like, given that nothing cannot exist?"

Section 1 of Philosophy Paper

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