RE: How can nothing exist?
So are we saying that nothing only exists in mathematical terms?
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RE: How can nothing exist?
In a way caveman, yes. If one takes the example of the trees, in order to minus them, they'd have to have been 'added' in the first place. For example, six trees are standing majestically in a field (they have been 'added' to the field.) One day, someone comes along and chops them down. They are now 'minused' to the field. This brings the total number of trees to zero. Even the 'zero' is something because before the zero, trees were added and are now 'minused.' A better example of 'minusing' is used in accountancy, which is a mathematical disclipline, and which counts zeros as numbers.
Everything comes down to mathematics. It's a 'shorthand' way to explain science.
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Patsy.
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RE: How can nothing exist?
adding to my answer something else, I am thinking about a couple of things now.
do you think that nothing is "denial" of everything? i am not saying something, I mean all the things all together.
=nothing proves that everything exists.
=nothing is an Idea.nothing anly lives in the world of the ideas, but not as an object in the world of the things.
what do you think ?
RE: How can nothing exist?
ORIGINAL: songstress
Is this science or philosophy?
I refer you to my post #5
(I'm getting the feeling this should be in the Philosophy forum, but we'll stick with here for now).
ORIGINAL: la titi
do you think that nothing is "denial" of everything?
Not at all. Denial is, I think, the wrong word. If I had an apple here, and someone takes it away, there is nothing there, but I'm not denying that the apple exists or that it was there, I'm just conscious that there is nothing in that particular location now.
I'm not sure that nothing is just an idea. If I take a solid box that has had all of the air taken out of it, I can quite clearly say that I am holding a box of "nothing". It's there in that space and I can move it about. It really does exist.
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RE: How can nothing exist?
Hi Giles,
If you take the air out of the box, surely there is still something there, such as energy, or even a vacuum? Hence, and correct me if I'm wrong, there is something there, and there always will be? So 'nothing' in a physical sense is impossible?