Kotzen on the Improbability of Nothing
When someone asks 'why p rather than q?', it is sometimes a good answer to say, 'p is far more probable than q.' When someone asks, 'why is p more probable than q?', it is sometimes a good answer to say, 'there are many more ways for p to be true than for q to be true.' According to a well-known paper by Peter Van Inwagen, the question 'why is there something rather than nothing?' can be answered in just this fashion: something is far more probable than nothing, because there are infinitely many ways for there to be something,...
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Cosmological Argument
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Existence of God
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Explanation
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G. W. Leibniz
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Historical Thinkers
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Matthew Kotzen
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Metaphysics
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Modality
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Peter van Inwagen
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Richard Swinburne
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Tyron Goldschmidt
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