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Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?

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Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?
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RE: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?
April 18, 2012 at 3:13 pm
It runs into problems as soon as you try to say 'if nothing existed'. Does nothing have no properties? Isn't 'having no properties' a property?

I suspect the idea of 'true nothingness' of the sort things need to be created 'ex nihilo' from is indeed incoherent. And God makes it worse: how can you have 'true nothingess' if God is around? Especially if it is omnipresent and eternal. If God is everywhere and eternal, 'true nothingness' is completely precluded.
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RE: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent? - by Mister Agenda - April 18, 2012 at 3:13 pm

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