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+title: Why there is something rather than nothing
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1714
+authors: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
+statement: Why does anything exist at all?
+space: metaphysics
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+Physics can describe how a universe evolves from an initial state, and even how a quantum state might arise from 'nothing'. Each such answer assumes laws and a framework that exist already. It may be the only question on this map that could have no answer.
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+Posed 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Why is there anything at all?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3F)
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+[[Space:metaphysics|Being and self]] · [[Continent:philosophy|Philosophy]]
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Physics can describe how a universe evolves from an initial state, and even how a quantum state might arise from 'nothing'. Each such answer assumes laws and a framework that exist already. It may be the only question on this map that could have no answer.
Posed 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.