Cur Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit

• Nothingness is the state of total absence of being.

• Only things which in some sense have being can be ascribed a nature, potentiality, and actuality. (Things like humans have being in a "real" sense while things like unicorns may be said to have being in a "virtual" sense.)

• So nothingness does not have a nature, potentiality, or actuality.

• But to posit something coming from nothing is to ascribe a nature and potentiality to nothingness.

• So something cannot come from nothing.