- 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!
- philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing . . .
Here, zero is't "nothing" zero is defined to be a set As an analogy, we could think of zero as a folder on a computer with no files inside Or as an empty container In my experience, zero is never defined to be "nothing" in mathematics, thinking of zero as nothing is a strictly nonmathematical conception of 0
- 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
- Is Nothing actually imaginable? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
We assume nothing, as assumptions are intrinsically empty and have no value in and of themselves To imagine "nothing", ie "give image", is a statement of relation as we only observe nothing through a relation of multiple parts For example an empty cup, we only observe its emptiness because of its relation to a liquid
- Is this proof that the universe came from nothing valid?
By (1), Universe contains all causes, all sources, i e , there is no cause, no source, indeed, nothing, that stands apart from, independent of, Universe But the proper conclusion to draw from this is not that Universe came from Nothing but rather that Universe simply is
- 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
- Can nothing have size? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Given that you can only measure things, you can't measure an absence of things Nothing is a group which has no elements, and therefore it cannot have a size (which is different from having size 0) Worst even, you cannot imagine nothing, except as an empty container What you are precisely trying to measure is the container, not the content
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