What Is He Really Trying to Say?

i was going through the same kind of process with him, trying to figure out, oqe, well, what is he really trying to say? And so that's why i went into the arguments for the the second premise. We can just leave begins to exist open as a ral - we don't have to specify how it begins. Whether it begins from prior materials or begins from nothing, is not built into the definition of begins. There are many examples that support general principle, and there are no connor examples that disconfirm that general principle. If you think things could come to be without prior states, then it seems puzzling why we don't witness new universes coming into