RE: Is absolute 'nothing' really possible and/or coherent?
April 20, 2012 at 12:40 am
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2012 at 12:43 am by TheJackel.)
If nothing existed, not even nothing would exist. Nothing can not by definition be a literal existing person, place, object, substance, or thing. The term is just a place card for the following:
1. What you expect to be there but isn't
2. A starting point (zero point energy), (ground zero)
3. A math equation to express the lack of something, or a neutral state: A car parked has a zero velocity and thus is traveling zero mph relative to Earth or you.
4. Denotes the lack of the existence of something in question. : You don't really have anything to offer me
But, nothing in the literal context is a logical fallacy. The pen on my desk proves that nothing doesn't exist. Me being here proves nothing doesn't exist. Even if existence were a static blank page of pure void it still couldn't ever literally be "nothing".. It would be the closest thing to nothing, but nothing could never become a literal reality. And for you immaterialists / theists, this discussion also tells you why immateriality is a logical fallacy. Yep, you can't exist and be made of nothing..
1. What you expect to be there but isn't
2. A starting point (zero point energy), (ground zero)
3. A math equation to express the lack of something, or a neutral state: A car parked has a zero velocity and thus is traveling zero mph relative to Earth or you.
4. Denotes the lack of the existence of something in question. : You don't really have anything to offer me
But, nothing in the literal context is a logical fallacy. The pen on my desk proves that nothing doesn't exist. Me being here proves nothing doesn't exist. Even if existence were a static blank page of pure void it still couldn't ever literally be "nothing".. It would be the closest thing to nothing, but nothing could never become a literal reality. And for you immaterialists / theists, this discussion also tells you why immateriality is a logical fallacy. Yep, you can't exist and be made of nothing..
