
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!
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.
How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
2023年10月29日 · Before big bang, there was nothing that was giving rise to particle-antiparticle pair(s), possibly for infinite time, if we insist to define time in that context. There must be nothing "outside" of our universe, in which the universe is expanding. In this sense, nothing can be considered as a kind of space.
philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing ...
2023年10月16日 · Here, zero is't "nothing" zero is defined to be a set. As an analogy, we could think of zero as a folder on a computer with no files inside. Or as an empty container. In my experience, zero is never defined to be "nothing" in mathematics, thinking of zero as nothing is a strictly nonmathematical conception of 0.
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.
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. –
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 ...
Because nothing exists, nothing also does not exist
2016年6月6日 · "Nothing" and "something" are not two separate tangible concepts, the concept of "nothing" is the absence of "something". The same thing applies to things like light. There isn't dark and light, dark is just the absence of light.
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.
Seeking insights on the origin of the term "Peripatetic Axiom"
2023年3月7日 · I have been researching the origins of the "Peripatetic Axiom," which states that nothing is in the mind that was not first in the senses. While I understand that this principle was first formulated by Aristotle and later expounded upon by Aquinas, I am curious about the term "Peripatetic" that is associated with it.