RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2014 at 11:09 am by Alex K.)
(March 13, 2014 at 11:07 am)whateverist Wrote:(March 13, 2014 at 5:13 am)Alex K Wrote: That's true.
"Why" questions trick you into believing that they are valid questions, just because you can form them in the English language.
What exactly are you asking for when you ask "why"? Are you looking for a cause? Then you are out of luck, since cause and effect are only applicable in the macroscopic realm within our universe. A logical necessity of some sort? There may not be one, see why ontological arguments fail - they might fail for the universe as a whole just as they fail for god figures. Logical conclusions need premises or axioms, and you will be begging the question at some point.
Why questions seem to make the most sense when applied to other people's motives. When they're applied to the physical world, "why" can be replaced with "how". When a why question is applied to everything, there is simply no vantage point from which the question can be answered. The answer isn't the problem, the question is.
My point exactly! Although you said it more succinctly
