As Spinoza puts it, "For each thing there must be assigned a cause or reason, both for its existence [if it exists] and for its non-existence [if it does not exist].
One journalist mused that its non-existence was because it "doesn't have a traditional dramatic structure, in terms of a clear, unqualified ending".
Hence, if one were to compare two beings, both equally great in all respects except that one exists and one does not, the one that does not exist, by virtue of its non-existence, is lacking a predicate that contributes to the greatness of the other.
And for parallel reasons, if something did not exist and there was no reason for its non-existence, the fact of its non-existence would also be a violation of the PSR.
The first grouping in Table 1 understands that free will does not exist but openly misleads the public over its non-existence.
But if an existing substance is completely causally isolated, what could bring about its non-existence?
The existence of that supply insured us then; its non-existence will insure us now.
RRW says that Google was able to abuse its position you know, its non-existence in Web mail to launch Gmail for free, thereby screwing Yahoo!
If the nature of nothing entails its non-existence, the nature of its opposite, completely pure being, entails its real existence.
2.1, the magnitude of a particular coefficient may indicate the existence of a frequency component, its non-existence or a state of doubt about its existence.
Since God is a substance, Spinoza argues, his existence or non-existence cannot be caused or explained externally (Spinoza takes substances to be causally independent of each other); hence, were God not to exist, he would have to be the cause of his non-existence, just as a square-circle is the cause of its non-existence.
