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- philosophy of science - What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
In that sense, emptiness is a physical force, and empty space is a real thing, not a 'nothing' At the same time the Parmenidean 'Nothing' as a supernatural construct also just seems to be a misunderstanding waiting to happen One version of the Bogomil heresy goes "Deposed, Satan had nothing He therefore rules the world
- nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing . . .
Nothing = something + less than nothing "Less than nothing" is another name for gravity Sounds like somebody's crazy theory, huh? But it is one of the amazing things that Einstein discovered that almost nobody knows about: Energy stored in the gravitational field is negative mass-energy And yes it IS simple to understand!
- existence - Something from nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Something had to exist to create the Universe, since it cannot come from nothing Emphasis mine This is not true Violate time-translation symmetry, i e with Universal expansion inflation, and indeed you can violate energy conservation and have something come from nothing, at least in the physical sense
- What happens when nothing happens? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Nothing is the negation of logical categories, defined by context 'I'm doing nothing' would involve many biological processes, but a specific contextually relevant negation of say, intentional acts or activities of certain kinds, as given by implicit cues
- How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Before big bang, there was nothing that was giving rise to particle-antiparticle pair(s), possibly for infinite time, if we insist to define time in that context There must be nothing "outside" of our universe, in which the universe is expanding In this sense, nothing can be considered as a kind of space
- epistemology - On knowing nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
The Dutch 19th century writer Multatuli (the first to vehemently criticize Dutch colonialism in Indonesia) once wrote this variantion on the Liar: "Perhaps nothing is completely true, and even that isn't " –
- metaphysics - What is nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Nothing is a problematic term; user of this term, considering nothing as a noun, are often at risk to run into linguistic traps As you correctly state, the original meaning of the terms nothing is to negate a positive statement But many languages allow the linguistic possibility to make a noun from words and to form the noun nothing
- Nothingness cannot be. Does that imply something must be?
Self-rejection, or nothing, is an inherent possibility or option of being which happens often with it That also implies nothing is always partial: only when being disperses and doesn't vanish completely nothing could be a negative happening There is no other way for nothing but in the presence of being which the nothing is nothing of
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