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The Puzzle of Existence : Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?.
This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does every...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in metaphysics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Introduction: Understanding the Question; 2 Could There Be a Complete Explanation of Everything?; 3 Ultimate Naturalistic Causal Explanations; 4 Reasoning Without the Principle of Sufficient Reason; 5 The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Grand Inexplicable; 6 Contingency, Dependence, and the Ontology of the Many; 7 Conceiving Absolute Greatness; 8 A Proof of God's Reality; 9 Methodological Separatism, Modal Pluralism, and Metaphysical Nihilism; 10 Contingency; 11 Metaphysical Nihilism Revisited. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 12 The Subtraction Arguments for Metaphysical Nihilism: Compared and Defended13 The Probabilistic Explanation of Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing; 14 Are Some Things Naturally Necessary?; 15 Questioning the Question; 16 Ontological Pluralism, the Gradation of Being, and the Question ""Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?""; Contributors; Index. | |
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