I think there is a difference between something “having the quality of being different” and a “state of nothingness”. — DingoJones
By variance I mean the quality of being different. Thus, a state of no variance would be a state where there is no difference/dissimilarity. Qualities such as unchanging and static presuppose a subject* whereas the quality of no-difference implies the impossibility of any subject. This way, nothingness equals no-difference. — Daniel
As if a stationary ball were nothing? — Banno
I think the question pointless. Language disengaged from our regular language games, disengaged gears spinning to no effect. — Banno
.So now you are imagining unlimited and unbridled difference — apokrisis
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Oojah-ka-Piv
The people who live
On the Oojah-ka-Piv
Stand around in bundles of nine
When asked how it feels
They reply 'Curried Eels'!
Otherwise - everything's going fine!
What if you imagine unlimited and unbridled no-difference? — Daniel
A definition of nothingness cannot accept the existence of possibility. — Daniel
Nothingness is the absence of existence and as such it cannot be an emergent property, either. — Daniel
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