RE: Does nothing exist?
March 10, 2010 at 5:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2010 at 5:10 pm by Violet.)
(March 10, 2010 at 4:54 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Nothing isn't something, it's no thing. So nothing can't exist because no thing existing simply means not one thing existing, which is the opposite of existence.
EvF
And yet it remains a concept. For it to be a concept, it must exist, at the least as a concept. Nothing can't logically exist, because for it to do so it would have to be something... in which case we cannot properly rationalize nothing as a concept, because that would be to presuppose its existence.
A lack of belief in something exists as a void. But nothing cannot exist as a void, because a void is a thing. Therefore nothing's existence tautologically becomes something... therefore nothing exists as something. Nothing cannot exist as nothing, because if it did then it would be something, that being nothing. Therefore nothing is always something, and therefore if nothing exists... it exists as something.
fr0d0 Wrote:Explain
Direct to the bold.
A void is nothing... but because of this it is something (that being a void). Hence the question is not "does nothing exist"... but rather "can nothing exist as something?"
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
