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Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox.
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RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox.
November 2, 2018 at 7:56 am
(November 1, 2018 at 10:10 am)CarveTheFive Wrote:
(November 1, 2018 at 9:33 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Yeah.  The concept of "nothingness" is sorta..well, inconceivable.  It's not an idea that I can coherently hold in my head because its definitions are so nonsensical.  And how can nothingness 'exist', if existence is a property of something?

That seems like a paradox based on the limitations of language more than a real philosophical problem.

I don't agree.  Can you conceive, in a coherent way, the characteristics of 'nothing'?  Could you describe it in any way, at all?
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Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox.

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RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by FatAndFaithless - November 2, 2018 at 7:56 am
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by Brian37 - November 2, 2018 at 9:52 am
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by Brian37 - November 2, 2018 at 8:01 am
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by Brian37 - November 1, 2018 at 9:16 am
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by Rahn127 - November 1, 2018 at 9:02 pm
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by LastPoet - November 2, 2018 at 1:04 pm
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by LastPoet - November 2, 2018 at 1:06 pm
RE: Inetersting tweet by proffessor Brain Cox. - by brewer - November 3, 2018 at 5:20 pm

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