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   What is metaphysical nihilism?

   • This charge is ungrounded; the argument is both valid and supported by basic modal intuitions. Metaphysical nihilism is the view that there could have been nothing, or more precisely, that there could have been none of the things philosophers are asking about when they ask ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’.

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   Is compositional nihilism necessary?

   • Only one who thinks compositional nihilism is necessary will reject the possi bility of such a world. But such a theorist will not be troubled by Rodriguez-Pere many simples. that a sum of contingent objects need itself be contingent. To see why it is perhaps easiest to consider the contraposition of that principle: if an object A is a necessary

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   Is metaphysical nihilism implausible?

   • If Paseau could show that metaphysical nihilism is implausible, that would show a difference between worlds containing many concreta and only one concretum, in that the latter would not plausibly be subtractable. But he has provided no grounds for thinking that the difference is significant. Either each concretum is contingent or some is not.

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   Are metaphysical nihilism and subtraction a threat?

   • But such answers are threatened by metaphysical nihilism, the thesis that there being nothing concrete is possible, and the subtraction argument for this thesis, an argument that is the subject of considerable recent debate.

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   Do the Qube believe in metaphysical nihilism?

   • Cameron's answer ( ibid .) is that the Qube both deny metaphysical nihilism and consistently accept the basic modal intuition, ‘namely, that the removal of a concrete object need not result in the introduction of a new thing into the world’, but they think that this only justifies (B) when concreteness is taken to be intrinsic.

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   Is there a connection between nihilistic and inflationary metaphysics?

   • As far as simplicity is concerned, there is a tie between the nihilistic rule ‘Always answer no!’ and the inflationary rule ‘Always answer yes!’. Neither rule makes for serious metaphysics. Even if ‘Nothing exists’ were the uniquely simplest possibility (as measured by memorability), why should we expect that possibility to be actual?

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   Metaphysical nihilism is the philosophical theory that there might have been no objects at all—that is, that there is a possible world in which there are no objects at all; or at least that there might have been no concrete objects at all, so that even if every possible world contains some objects, there is at least one that contains only ...

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   Aug 28, 2003 · Nothingness. Since metaphysics is the study of what exists, one might expect metaphysicians to have little to say about the limit case in which nothing exists. But around the fifth century BCE in China, India, and Greece, philosophers turned from what is, to what is not (Sorensen 2022).

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   Oct 23, 2008 · Metaphysical nihilism is the view that there could have been nothing, or more precisely, that there could have been none of the things philosophers are asking about when they ask ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’.

   • Author: David Efird, Tom Stoneham

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   According to metaphysical nihilism, it's possible that there are no concrete objects. In other words, there is a possible world w such that "There are no concrete objects" is true at w. The central argument for the thesis is the subtraction argument.

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   Mar 16, 2012 · The argument against metaphysical nihilism is based on the premises that some abstracta necessarily exist; that the only possible kinds of abstracta are sets and universals; and that sets depend upon non-sets (their members) and universals depend on non-universals (their instances).

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   May 15, 2007 · According to nihilism (pessimism), what would make a life meaningful in principle cannot obtain for any of us. One straightforward rationale for nihilism is the combination of extreme supernaturalism about what makes life meaningful and atheism about whether a spiritual realm exists.

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   Sep 6, 2004 · 'Metaphysical Nihilism' commonly refers to the doctrine that there could have been no concrete beings; I will use the term to refer both to that view and the view that there could have been no contingent objects, distinguishing the two doctrines when necessary. Whether there could have been no contingent objects has not received much