(February 8, 2018 at 9:56 am)SteveII Wrote: In philosophy, 'nothing' (along with nobody, nowhere, none, etc.) are terms of universal negation. All you are doing is playing games with a word that grammatically is a pronoun and making it into a noun. If I had nothing for lunch today, I do not mean that I ate something and it was nothing. If I saw nobody in the office, I do not mean I saw somebody called nobody.
No, no, no. Don't use these red herrings.
Focus on the phrase "nothing exists". Look at that word "exists". What does it mean to "exist"?
Quote:You are propagating a silly argument that only exists in the world of the atheist echo chamber. Go ahead, find a serious philosopher who has written on the somethingness of nothingness.
No one I know of, but here's one philosopher who is arguing exactly what LadyForCamus was arguing.