(April 15, 2016 at 4:58 pm)Evie Wrote: Existence is the totality of all existing things.
There must be something because "nothing" cannot exist.
A non-necessary thing is something that doesn't necessarily have to exist. In an indeterministic universe that could be anything.... except existence itself which must exist by definition. SOMETHING must exist.
For the record, I think the universe is deterministic and I think all existences are necessary.
Fair enough. How does this view account for the results of the quantum fluctuation experiments? In other words, some things (like those particles in the quantum fluctuation experiments) begin and cease existing within a fraction of a second. How can that thing be considered necessary on your view?