"cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil"
— Gottfried Leibniz

January 1, 1970

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Cf. Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (1929)ː "Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage."