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The Argument from Contingency
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The argument from contingency: everything in the universe could have failed to exist; whatever explains why anything exists at all must exist necessarily.
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Leibniz asked the sharpest version: why is there something rather than nothing? A necessary being is his answer.
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Critics reply that the universe itself may be the brute fact—an explanation has to stop somewhere.
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- Nothing yet depends on this.