**First Reality Argument; an accompaniment to the First Causal Argument. **
Existence;
Has the capacity to Be, Do, Experience. Has capacity.
Non-Existence;
Lacks the capacity to Be, Do, Experience. Lacks capacity.
I
I propose an argument, that Reality has always existed, in that Existence has always existed. There has never been a moment or timeless, or spaceless experience where there was no Existence (synonymously termed, Reality).
Non-Existence does not have the capacity to Be, therefore it does not have the capacity to Do, or to Experience; experiences such as stimuli, or cause/effect relationships. It has neither the ability to cause, nor to put in motion, it has neither the capacity to actively or passively bring forth the building blocks of universes, neither can it bring forth particles or energies - it, being Non-Existence, does not have the capacity to be the foundation of Existence; it does not have the capacity to bring forth Existence, and certainly not complex existent entities such as universes, or realities. Non-existence lacks capacity entirely, and altogether.
Existence alone has this capacity, because Existence alone has the capacity innate and intrinsic to it; to Be, and thus to Do, and Experience. In its established capacity to Be, the ability to Do is established as possible. Existence alone has the capacity to give birth to existent entities, like universes or atoms.
II
Non-existence cannot bring forth Existence, Existence alone can bring forth existent entities; Existence alone having the capacity, where as Non-existence has no capacities at all. Existence therefore, must be the foundation upon which existent entities are established, and come to be. Since Non-existence is not, and cannot, be responsible for the “existence of Existence”, then Existence alone can be responsible for its own existence (self-evidency); Existence is self-evident.
Existence having no beginning in or from Non-existence, must be responsible for its own beginning, or ultimately and more logically; its own eternal self-evidency.
Existence must be understood to be eternal, self-evident, and immutably established. Having no beginning bound to time or space, and so having no end bound to time or space, or any existent entity (such as time and space) whose existence is founded in Existence, not the other way around. Likewise, being self-evident, Existence is self-perpetuating, and self-maintaining, Existence is effectively immune to Non-existence - Existence cannot cease to exist, due to its self-evident, self-perpetuating, self-maintaining nature, which is intrinsic to it, and upon which all existent entities are dependent to exist.
Reality, The Reality, is Existence.
Reality is self-evident, self-perpetuating, self-maintaining, eternal, immutably established; having the capacity to Be, by which existent entities within it “be”.
Anything that “arises into existence” be they quantum particles, seeming to “come out of nothing” or universes which seem to spontaneously “bang” into existence, must arise out of Reality, they must arise out of that fundamental Existence, even if it is not a physical existence in the material, or quantum sense. Existence cannot arise out of Non-existence, and to claim it so is to claim a violent impossibility. It would be to claim that Non-existence has capacity to Be, and Do; to bring forth, and in bringing forth must be existent, having that capacity. To claim that Existence arises out of Non-existence, is self-defeating; because capacity is observed either with the senses, or hypothetically - and thus the “Non-existence” is rendered and retermed “Existence” by that sheer fact of expressing capacity, capacity of which is required to bring forth existent entities no matter the size, state, or quality.
Non-existence, or Non-capacity, cannot by any means be responsible for Existence, neither for the existence of existent entities. Existence alone; that which has capacity and therefore exists (being mutually necessary) - can bring forth existent entities.
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