Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?"
Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
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'De rerum originatione radicali' ('The Radical Origin of Things') or 'The Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason'
Date: 1697 or 1714
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