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philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing . . . 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 There is some Platonic Notions of 1, where 1 represents Unity, and 1 is the form which contains everything- "All is One"
metaphysics - Can we imagine nothing or can we only conceive a . . . Nothing! -- Yeah, well, but that's not absolute nothingness, isn't it? Philosophical discourse about "nothing" always seems to dissolve into something like the Monty Python sketch of the Norwegian Blue, the poor demised parrot, the stiff that has "joined the invisible choir" Sigmund Freud believed that we cannot "imagine" our own death
nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing . . . Throughout the history of time, it has been almost everyone’s intuition that something cannot come from nothing That intuition is so strong that many can’t even imagine this to be false But would
How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange The question should be 'How can something come out of nothing' not 'Why cannot something come out of nothing' Stephen Hawkings has recently argued as to how the universe can come out of nothing, but to my mind his argument is rather circular and it's not provable
Why is there something instead of nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange 'Nothing' might be a result of 'something' There was always 'something' but this 'something' is not always the same Sometimes it changes in to 'something' else This means that the 'something else' is proceeded by its own nothingness You can project this little theory on to our own brain: The concept of 'nothingness' which is fabricated by the brain is nothing more than a result of the fact
Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists? That nothing exists is posited in medieval ontology In this attempt mysticism arrives at a peculiar speculation, peculiar because it transforms the idea of essence in general, which is an ontological determination of a being, the essentia entis, into a being and makes the ontological ground of a being, its possibility, its essence, into what is
Does any physical entity last forever? - Philosophy Stack Exchange 0 Does it matter? Pun intended If the universe is not supposed to last, why would any matter last? If the universe is supposed to collapse at one moment, everything would have the same fate, hence nothing physical effectively lasts
A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing The title of the question - A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing - is said to be a quotation attributed to philosopher of science Karl Popper, but there's no consensus on whether he