The Trans-Existential Grounding Framework (TEG)

The argument, in three steps

1. Existence cannot ground itself

Physical law is stated in mathematics, and the mathematics works. Order of that kind either is a formal system or produces one. Gödel proved in 1931 that such a system cannot establish its own consistency from within. So the account of that consistency comes from outside existence.

2. Three routes to the same place

Three separate starting points reach the same place:

1. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, the route above: Existence as a totality must be grounded from outside Existence.
2. Property Regress shows that when you go ever deeper into the basic properties of existence, you will arrive at something without properties. It does not exist in the sense used here, since to exist is to have properties. It is real all the same.
3. Sufficient reason points to the fact that Existence is contingent. It could have been different and thus not necessarily like it is.

Anything existing has properties. There is something that creates these properties. Something that has no properties, something that grounds existence. We call this Pure Potential.

3. The ground must choose

A ground that creates must create without restrictions. There are three ways to create: by rule, by chance, or by choice. If it was creating by some rule, then the rule would be a property. If the creating was random or by chance, then it would not create existence as we know it. We see constants steady across billions of years. Therefore the third option must be true, that it is created by choice.