philosophy of science - What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
2015年4月29日 · In that sense, emptiness is a physical force, and empty space is a real thing, not a 'nothing'. At the same time the Parmenidean 'Nothing' as a supernatural construct also just seems to be a misunderstanding waiting to happen. One version of the Bogomil heresy goes "Deposed, Satan had nothing. He therefore rules the world.
Is Nothing actually imaginable? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
We assume nothing, as assumptions are intrinsically empty and have no value in and of themselves. To imagine "nothing", ie "give image", is a statement of relation as we only observe nothing through a relation of multiple parts. For example an empty cup, we only observe its emptiness because of its relation to a liquid.
logic - If the universe came from "nothing", why is it assumed that ...
The notion that the universe - including space and time - had a beginning is, when taken in conjunction with a restricted version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), the basis of the Kalam cosmological argument: since entities do not pop into existence out of nothing (not to confuse with quantum particles popping into and out of existence from existing quantum fields, …
metaphysics - What is nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
2016年6月6日 · Nothing is a problematic term; user of this term, considering nothing as a noun, are often at risk to run into linguistic traps. As you correctly state, the original meaning of the terms nothing is to negate a positive statement. But many languages allow the linguistic possibility to make a noun from words and to form the noun nothing.
"nothing" and "no-thing" - is "nothing" a negative term that is too ...
2016年1月12日 · Does "nothing", as a linguistic term, carry within it an implied essence - one of inherent absence - one that makes what seems like negation in the above statement, actually a positive statement? And would substituting "nothing" with "no-thing" avoid this at all?
metaphysics - Why is there something instead of nothing?
And let's define the nothing opposite to something as NOTHING, all in uppercase, in contrast to using semantics for talking about an empty group, the regular usage for nothing. So, first, let's finally suppose you meant time (or space time) itself broader than the universe. (1) spacetime > universe. Then it doesn't matter if there is NOTHING at ...
Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists?
2012年10月29日 · The word 'God' may be used for this 'Nothing' that lies beyond all diversity, but this language would be optional. It would be impossible for there to ever be a true Nothing, but the Nothing of mysticism is also Everything, Roughly speaking, Everything would be Nothing but Nothing would not be Nothing. –
What do we mean by the symbolic representation of nothing?
To get at least the semantics of simple sentences going, where 'nothing' takes subject position, let VPs denote subsets of D and add the rule: a sentence of the form NP+VP is true (relative to D) iff [VP] ∈ [NP], where NP represents quantified NPs ([VP] ([NP]) is …
Something vs Nothing. Reality of 0? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
2022年2月8日 · Yes, I think "nothing" is a "something" and that because of this "something" must have always existed. My rationale is below. First, it's very important to distinguish between the mind's conception of "nothing" and "nothing" itself, in which the mind would not be there. When I use the term "nothing", I'm talking about "nothing" itself.
nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing ...
2024年10月21日 · Nothing = something + less than nothing. "Less than nothing" is another name for gravity. Sounds like somebody's crazy theory, huh? But it is one of the amazing things that Einstein discovered that almost nobody knows about: Energy stored in the gravitational field is negative mass-energy. And yes it IS simple to understand!