• QuixoticAgnostic
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    Just a silly question. Curious how people interpret this.

    One obvious answer is of course there are more things that exist, because there are only things that exist. Perhaps, things that don't exist aren't even "things".

    Another obvious answer is of course there are more things that don't exist, because there are many ways a thing could be, but it only exists in one of those ways. In this way, you could say possible things exist, and we can count those and compare that to what actually exists.

    Controversially, you could say there are an equal amount of existent and non-existent things. One might say, existence and non-existence are two sides of the same coin, so where we say a thing exists, we also introduce the possibility of that thing failing to exist. If we consider both states of affairs as real in some way, you might say that there's some thing that does not exist for every thing that does exist. That's just an argument I made up.

    What do you think?
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