From Edgar L. Owen@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 22 10:53:48 2017
There are 4 fundamental questions of existence:
1. Why does something rather than nothing exist?
2. What is the fundamental nature of existence?
3. Why is what exists that which exists rather than something else?
4. What actually does exist?
After much careful consideration I think the most reasonable answer to question 1 is the following:
Something must exist because non-existence cannot exist. Therefore existence (to be defined in answer to 2) must necessarily exist. Therefore existence has 'always' existed and there is no need for a creator nor a creation event (the big bang was an
actualization event from a previously existing quantum vacuum).
The corollary is that reality must be logical because this answer depends on the inherent contradiction of its negation as its proof.
If true this can be simply stated in the form of a fundamental axiom "Existence exists". This would provide a fundamental circular self-necessitating axiom upon which the entire logical structure of reality stands.
When we consider carefully it's better to have a single meaningful and logical circular self-necessitating fundamental axiom rather than a set of axioms such as those of Geometry which while explanatory don't have any more fundamental basis. Only that
can provide an adequate solid foundation for a meaningful and logical theory of reality and avoid the infinite stack of turtles problem.