(April 12, 2011 at 6:43 am)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Okay, fine..you want a SERIOUS answer from me. Then the answer is "NO, nothing is not everything"
I thought we just determined that no-one said it was... :S
The second half of your post is exactly what I was saying about the content of a set not being equal to the set itself.
Nothing-as-a-thing is the empty set.
Nothing-as-an-absense-of-a-thing is the content of the empty set.
And you're right that it's a logical fallacy to equate them.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip