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THE MYSTERY OF THE UNIVERSE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2009

Peter Lyth
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The ‘why’ question is very deep seated in human nature. Children indeed are always asking such questions: Why is there lightning and thunder? Why is there the sun and moon? Sometimes they ask questions which confound their mentors: e.g. ‘Why is there a universe?’

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 8 , Issue 23 , Autumn 2009 , pp. 21 - 26
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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1 It may be objected that ‘possible’ is not vacuous since its negation is not, since we can say a round square is ‘not possible’. However, here ‘not possible’ is not referring to a meta-physical property nor to the absence of one. ‘Not possible’ simply means in this context that we cannot point to round squares since we know that ‘round’ entails ‘not-square’ and ‘square’ entails ‘not-round’.