Even the Penrose bounce does not suggest a previous Universe becomes nothing before a new ‘Big Bang.’ — universeness
I don’t think it is meaningful to try to objectify ‘outside’ of everything that exists. — universeness
Because I perceive the concept of ‘outside of spacetime,’ fallacious. — universeness
I think of nothingness as negative space in a visual field. It is the space between things that helps define the objects. — Jackson
So, I guess that means there can't be nothing inside the limits of our universe. What about outside? — Clarky
Are those guys outside the universe or do you have a point? — Clarky
Philosophers like Nietzsche , Foucault ,Heidegger , Derrida , Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty argue that the notion of the nothing as lack is the result of grounding difference and negation on identity and Sameness. They instead ground concepts like identity and sameness , which are the basis of the notion of the empirical object , in difference. Identity is an effect of difference. From this vantage , talking about the ‘nothing’ as a lack of identity is incoherent. — Joshs
Philosophers like Nietzsche , Foucault ,Heidegger , Derrida , Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty argue that the notion of the nothing as lack is the result of grounding difference and negation on identity and Sameness. They instead ground concepts like identity and sameness , which are the basis of the notion of the empirical object , in difference. Identity is an effect of difference. From this vantage , talking about the ‘nothing’ as a lack of identity is incoherent. — Joshs
If something exists, so does nothing exist. — Jackson
Of course not. "Nothing" is an abstract concept formed by mental subtraction: imagine any set, remove members one by one. What's left? nothing. To claim nothing is something is self-contradictory, or a reification of the "nothing" concept. — Relativist
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