> >Norman: You say that "Because it is necessarily true" is the answer to "Why > > does the integer series -100 to +100 exist?" However, you > seem to say > > that this is NOT the answer to "Why does anything exist?" In this > > latter case, you seem to say the question is meaningless > because "the > > sum of everything is equivalent to nothing." > > Quentin: I think it is meaningless because the question is "Why is > there something/anything instead of nothing ?". The answer as > given by jonathan is that something/anything and nothing are > the same... So if there are the same object, the question is > meaningless.
Exactly. I should add, I don't agree with Pearce's free lunch theory, because I don't see that it is particularly important or relevant that the sum of everything adds to zero (if indeed it does). Jonathan Colvin
