On 1/13/2015 2:03 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:07 AM, LizR <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:> The question is better phrased as "why does anything exist?"But that question is logically equivalent to "why doesn't nothing exist?", and the answer is that if it did't then nothing exists and so something does. Logic says something must exist or you have a contradiction, but where logic came from I don't know.
Logic was invented to avoid self-contradictions in language. If you say X and not-X you will fail to say anything so it's considered good to avoid it...except when X is claimed to be an attributed of God.
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