TY - BOOK AU - Rundle,Bede TI - Why there is something rather than nothing SN - 9780191533679 U1 - 110 23 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Clarendon KW - Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Metaphysics KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index; Theology and meaning -- God and explanation -- Causation and necessity -- Creation and conservation -- Essence and existence -- Matter and abstractions -- Mind and agency -- Time and explanation N2 - This work offers an explanation of fundamental facts of existence in purely philosophical terms, without appeal either to theology or cosmology. It will provoke and intrigue anyone who wonders about these questions ER -