The same point applies to the phrase "something rather than "nothing." It's not a general concern about "why" questions but a concern about applying quantificat

The same point applies to the phrase "something rather than "nothing." It's not a general concern about "why" questions but a concern about applying quantification to non-specific things. Quantification in the abstract typically falls under mathematics. This is what we have numbers for. But people make sense of "something rather than nothing" as if it's more than abstraction. People think they understand what they're talking about, but they really don't (literally, not figuratively).