Is there a specific sense of possibility (epistemic, logical ...
Dec 29, 2024 · If "nothingness" is only contingently a possibility, that implies that there always was something: the potential to be something; hence, nothingness can only be possible if it is …
nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing ...
Oct 21, 2024 · Nothing = something + less than nothing. "Less than nothing" is another name for gravity. Sounds like somebody's crazy theory, huh? But it is one of the amazing things that …
philosophy of science - What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
Apr 29, 2015 · In that sense, emptiness is a physical force, and empty space is a real thing, not a 'nothing'. At the same time the Parmenidean 'Nothing' as a supernatural construct also just …
epistemology - On knowing nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Dec 3, 2024 · The 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 …
How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
Oct 29, 2023 · Before 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 …
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 …
How could our universe suddenly appear out of nothingness?
The physicists 'nothing' is a special state called the 'vacuum state'. It certainly isn't the philosophical nothing as SteenJobs pointed out in his excellant answer. As a provocative …
Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists?
Oct 29, 2012 · The word 'God' may be used for this 'Nothing' that lies beyond all diversity, but this language would be optional. It would be impossible for there to ever be a true Nothing, but the …
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 …
Because nothing exists, nothing also does not exist
"Nothing" and "something" are not two separate tangible concepts, the concept of "nothing" is the absence of "something". The same thing applies to things like light. There isn't dark and light, …