Add to ORKGPeter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’. His answer is: Because there being nothing is as improbable as anything can be: it has probability 0. Here I shall examine his argument for this answer and I shall argue that it does not work because no good reasons have been given for two of the argument’s premises and that the conclusion of the argument does not constitute an answer to the question van Inwagen wanted to answer
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Peter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’....
Peter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’....
The answer to the question of why there is Something rather than Nothing is that there has to be Som...
In “Why is There Anything at All?” Peter van Inwagen argues that even though it was never necessary ...
From Leibniz to Krauss philosophers and scientists have raised the question as to why there is somet...
In this chapter, it is argued that the question of why there is anything at all is a legitimate one ...
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Using “brute reason” I will show why there can be only one valid interpretation of probability. The ...
In probability textbooks, it is widely claimed that zero probability does not mean impossibility. Bu...
In this paper, I introduce and discuss a paradox that I call “subtraction paradox”. The subtraction ...
In A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume presents an argument according to which all knowledge redu...
In 1977 van Fraassen showed convincingly, and in detail, how one can give a dissentive answer to the...
Does the concept of "nothing" even exist or is it just a placeholder for things that are outside the...
The answer is that probabilities allow you to use logic and continue to reason even in the presence ...
Bas van Fraassen argues that inference to the best explanation (IBE) is a probabilistically incohere...
Peter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’....
Peter van Inwagen has given an answer to the question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’....
The answer to the question of why there is Something rather than Nothing is that there has to be Som...
In “Why is There Anything at All?” Peter van Inwagen argues that even though it was never necessary ...
From Leibniz to Krauss philosophers and scientists have raised the question as to why there is somet...
In this chapter, it is argued that the question of why there is anything at all is a legitimate one ...
My aim here is to answer the question about why is there something rather than nothing by arguing fo...
Using “brute reason” I will show why there can be only one valid interpretation of probability. The ...
In probability textbooks, it is widely claimed that zero probability does not mean impossibility. Bu...
In this paper, I introduce and discuss a paradox that I call “subtraction paradox”. The subtraction ...
In A Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume presents an argument according to which all knowledge redu...
In 1977 van Fraassen showed convincingly, and in detail, how one can give a dissentive answer to the...
Does the concept of "nothing" even exist or is it just a placeholder for things that are outside the...
The answer is that probabilities allow you to use logic and continue to reason even in the presence ...
Bas van Fraassen argues that inference to the best explanation (IBE) is a probabilistically incohere...