@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Nozick,Robert}, subject = {Existence}, note = {II 124 Existence / nothing / Nozick: If we assume instead of nothing the full existence as a natural state, we have to wonder how so many opportunities are not realized. >Existence, >World, >Totality, >Possibilities, >Possible worlds, >Unrealized possibilities, >Possibilia, >Possibilism, >Actualism. Then the present situation must be produced by a negating force - if then also nothingness is allowed depends on whether the force may be applied to itself. Western philosophy: holds existence somehow to be more perfect than nothingness - however perfection itself is not a natural state. >Existence/Leibniz, >Perfection.}, note = { No I R. Nozick Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981 No II R., Nozick The Nature of Rationality 1994 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=219726} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=219726} }