TH> You didn't fully understand the depth of the question. The question
 TH> addressed a hypothetical situation in which there was absolutely
 TH> *nothing* in existence at all - no matter, energy, God or gods,
 TH> universe, multiverse, forces, properties, universal laws, etc. Quantum
 TH> uncertainty is a property of reality. The question assumed the complete
 TH> absence of any kind of reality and such properties.
   Parmenides, of course, doesn't finally answer the question but he 
ogitated
on Truth and Delusion and was told that the NOT IS is unthinkable.  Today, 
he
question would be posed as the struggle between the "truth" of philosophy and
the "truths" of theology or ideology.  The latter are often far more 
ppealing
for the former has no final answers.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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