yet the empty set is still a set. having no members still leaves the set itself. that is something.
colloquially, most people speak of ‘nothing’ as a ‘void’ or ‘empty space’ or as a universe with no beings. which is just the empty set. which is still something. just as an empty box, is still a box.
so
when we say ‘nothing’, we literally mean ‘no-thing’, not an empty box, not a void, not even an empty set.
so when the question. “why is there something rather than nothing?” is raised. it is based on a false assumption. that there can be a literal empty set, that qualifies as ‘nothing’ an alternative to ‘something’. clearly this is a false idea
ergo,
there is something rather than nothing because there is no such thing as ‘no-thing’
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