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  1. nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing ...

    Oct 21, 2024 · 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 …

  2. philosophy of science - What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack …

    Apr 29, 2015 · 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 …

  3. How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack …

    Oct 29, 2023 · 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 …

  4. philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing ...

    Oct 16, 2023 · 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 …

  5. logic - Can something be nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Aug 20, 2013 · Nothing is exactly that - not a thing, zero things, the absence of things and stuff. "The concept of nothing" is a concept, and a concept is a thing, in at least some definitions of …

  6. existence - Something and Nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Oct 21, 2023 · Nothing is the mystical or ineffable experience of the empty field of awareness which we paradoxically think of as something. To speak of nothing is to evoke the distinction …

  7. 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 …

  8. How could our universe suddenly appear out of nothingness?

    The physicists 'nothing' is a special state called the 'vacuum state'. It certainly isn't the philosophical nothing as SteenJobs pointed out in his excellant answer. As a provocative …

  9. Something vs Nothing. Reality of 0? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Feb 8, 2022 · Yes, I think "nothing" is a "something" and that because of this "something" must have always existed. My rationale is below. First, it's very important to distinguish between the …

  10. metaphysics - Why is there something instead of nothing?

    And let's define the nothing opposite to something as NOTHING, all in uppercase, in contrast to using semantics for talking about an empty group, the regular usage for nothing. So, first, let's …