Does anything exist necessarily? In other words, is there anything that simply cannot NOT exist?

Necessary to what? Everything that exists self-evidently can't not exist.

Existence itself.

(April 15, 2016 at 4:07 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Necessary to what? Everything that exists self-evidently can't not exist.

Necessary in itself. Why is it self-evident that everything that exists cannot not exist? Clearly Quantum Fluctuation experiments demonstrate otherwise (we can witness things beginning and ceasing to exist - that is the definition of non-necessary existence).

(April 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Evie Wrote: Existence itself.

So there is at least one thing that cannot not exist? It just is. What is existence itself? Is it a thing? Is it a particle? Any guesses?

(April 15, 2016 at 4:07 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Necessary to what? Everything that exists self-evidently can't not exist.

Necessary in itself. These quantum fluctuation experiments seem to demonstrate that it is NOT self-evident that everything that exists cannot not exist.

Sure, this isn't a troll or a sock?

I mean the join date predates True Christian, but the threads are eerily similar.

I'm no troll, and I have no idea what a sock is?

@ApeNotKillApe

I mean necessary in itself. Quantum Fluctuation experiments seem to demonstrate that at least some things are not necessary (they begin an stop existing in fractions of seconds). Do you think anything just IS?

(April 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm)Evie Wrote: Existence itself.

How do you figure?

Existence must exist by definition.

How could it not be necessary?

Nonexistent existence is the only alternative to existence, and that makes no sense.

Something must exist, and that something is existence itself.

I personally believe existence is also eternal.

(April 15, 2016 at 4:35 pm)Ignorant Wrote: I'm no troll, and I have no idea what a sock is?

@ApeNotKillApe

I mean necessary in itself. Quantum Fluctuation experiments seem to demonstrate that at least some things are not necessary (they begin an stop existing in fractions of seconds). Do you think anything just IS?

Necessary in itself, meaning what? The existence of the universe is necessary for the existence of the universe, and the universe simply is, and the universe self-evidently has to exist.