I know that I know nothing — Socrates
We need an argument that demonstrates that nothing is impossible or that something is necessary, same thing! — Agent Smith
Is the something we experience just a phase in the transition from everything to nothing? — Agent Smith
Consider this ...It's impossible to know nothing. — Agent Smith
I gave it a go in this old postWe need an argument that demonstrates that nothing is impossible or that something is necessary, same thing! — Agent Smith
and then later on a different threadIs there any possible version of the actual world that is 'the negation of the actual world' (i.e. nothingness)?
Is there any possible world in which it is true that 'a possible world is not a possible world' (i.e. nothingness)? — 180 Proof
Yeah, yeah: semantic, concept jugglery (aka 'Hegelian' metaphysics). :smirk:Nothing-ness' entails even the absence of the possibility of not-nothingness (i.e. something). Thus: If ever nothingness, then never not-nothingness; something, therefore necessarily not-nothingness, no? — 180 Proof
Perhaps the right place to start is with thing, what is it? What's a thing? Then and only then should we move to an analysis of nothing. — Agent Smith
Well everythingness must contain its own limitations just because it includes all possible conflicts. A will be cancelled by not-A. The result ultimately would be that everythingness thus cannot “exist”. It can only be the prior potential which then self-cancels. — apokrisis
Why is there something rather than nothing ? — Deus
What do you mean by A and not-A? — litewave
Where do you fit the set of all infinitesimals in your scheme here? — apokrisis
:100:It strikes me that the question, as stated, should never arise. Why assume that "something" requires an explanation because it exists rather than or instead of nothing? — Ciceronianus
It strikes me that the question, as stated, should never arise. Why assume that "something" requires an explanation because it exists rather than or instead of nothing? — Ciceronianus
Reality seems more a process - a developing structure - than just some eternal set of material objects.
So existence might seem a brute fact, but persistence requires it contextual explanation. — apokrisis
Accepting this, I still don't understand what assuming "nothing", whatever that is meant to mean, as--seemingly--an alternative to existence or persistence, does beyond supporting a belief that something in the nature of a super-explanation... — Ciceronianus
There must be a super-explanation, or reason or purpose, for everything, because otherwise (instead) there would be nothing. — Ciceronianus
but we may be able to determine a tendency or process, and speculate from there. — Ciceronianus
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