Some proponents of the argument contend that we know a priori that if something exists there is a reason for its existence.
(If something exists, isn't it part of nature? "Supernatural" seems to me an evasion).
But it is limited if something exists outside it.
Kant's argument is as follows: something is possible only if it is thinkable; something is thinkable only if data are present to the mind; data can be present to the mind only if the complete set of thinkable data already exists; therefore something is possible only if something exists.
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A statement can be about something only if that something exists.
If God exists, then something exists.
Another Sophist, Gorgias, advanced the skeptical-nihilist thesis that nothing exists; and, if something did exist, it could not be known; and, if it could be known, it could not be communicated.
In "The Relation of Time to Eternity", McTaggart criticizes Hermann Lotze's view that something exists only if it is in time.
