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Bookmark or Share- epistemology - On knowing nothing - Philosophy Stack ExchangeThe Dutch 19th century writer Multatuli (the first to vehemently criticize Dutch colonialism in Indonesia) once wrote this variantion on the Liar: "Perhaps nothing is completely true, and even that isn't." –
- philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing ...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.
- Nothingness cannot be. Does that imply something must be?Self-rejection, or nothing, is an inherent possibility or option of being which happens often with it. That also implies nothing is always partial: only when being disperses and doesn't vanish completely nothing could be a negative happening. There is no other way for nothing but in the presence of being which the nothing is nothing of.
- How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack ExchangeBefore 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.
- 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, which are not ...
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