Can anyone give a true answer to this; besides the obvious, e.g.., seven letters, the opposite of something, the opposite of everything, lack of anything, a void?
2006-06-26 08:30:36 · 24 answers · asked by Glen 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
A professor gave a psyscology class a final exam. He sat his chair on his desk and told the students to write a paper using what they had learned to prove that the chair did not exist. While most students started writing feverishly, one student got up and handed the professor his paper and walked out. Do you know what the student wrote on his paper?
Two words: WHAT CHAIR? He got an A.
2006-06-26 08:39:07 · answer #1 · answered by Jamester 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no such thing as nothing because even if we think of nothing, it isn't really nothing because it's a thought. nothing is the lack of existence, so obviously, if we observe it, it's something, like if it's thought, dreams, speech...anything. we have never encountered a "nothing" because we can't discover nothing, just something, or else there wouldn't be anything to discover. makes sense?
i don't know why they made the word "nothing" if it can't accurately describe anything but the amount of words it can describe in formal speech. in slang, or informal, nothing means "hardly anything".
2006-06-26 09:00:55 · answer #2 · answered by xREDrawr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a convoluted concept described with some of your examples. You could add to the opposite list, being, matter, infinity, god of god, parallel existence.
"Nothing" could also be a wasteful time.
2006-06-26 08:42:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm, I think the only thing that does not exist is nothingness, since everything exists. so nothingness is nothing, or maybe its the absence of something?
lol! that's what i think! ^-^
it's the absence of something
and nothingness is the only thing that is non-existent.
lol, very hard to understand.
relative to what a person thinks is the truth.
2006-06-26 08:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by rachie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing is a state of mind a sence of no being or lack of something, nothing is the sound of of an airless roomthe feeling of sticking your hand into a black hope and expecting something to bte you and then nothing happens
2006-06-26 08:33:08 · answer #5 · answered by Princess N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beats me, but you can apparently find out about the physics of nothing at this site - see below.
2006-06-26 08:33:37 · answer #6 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heart without Love beating.
Brain without thinking.
Arms without working.
Beauty without kindness.
All are nothing, aren't they?
Please add on the same manner if you agree.
2006-06-27 01:25:37 · answer #7 · answered by Nan 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
emptyness
lack of anything
seeming to have nothing
i dont think there could ever be nothing
just a word for lacking of..
blankness...
2006-06-26 08:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by nina_aka_babydoll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The absence of something.
A void.
2006-06-26 18:03:04 · answer #9 · answered by Aritmentor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A phrase that shouldn't exist!!
the state of non-existance .. the absence of anything whatsoever .. total insignificance.
Why should it exist anyway ??
2006-06-26 08:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by teddy l 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋