2006-11-05 14:10:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If so, couldn't you say that something came from nothing through a balance or unbalance of the two forces?
2006-11-05 14:11:57 · update #1
That is how things work... where there is matter... somewhere else is its opposite, (antimatter). A void is still distinguishable, therefore is labelled... making it something... Even though the labelled something, is nothing at all, or what we perceive as nothing. So yes, nothing is something...
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2006-11-05 14:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Nothing is something. The void is something (it's a void). Black holes, the abyss, nirvana. All recognizable as nothing, therefore they are something. A vast blackness, a chasm of nothing still consists of the blackness & nothingness. Everything is something, even nothing. Yes, conception makes it so. If it is conceived of, it exists.
Ok my brain hurts. I'm going to eat some smarties...
2006-11-05 22:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, while you predicate on nothing, nothing is non-existent. It's necessary for existence that it have boundaries -- otherwise a plenum of being would be indistinguishable.. A universe of pure, constipated mass would be as empty as void. It's a fault of language that we attribute properties to 'nothing' which is just a relation of existent things. Again nothing would not be understood but for the distance between two or more objects.
To address your argument plainly. Anything I conceive of does not entail existence-- for example Santa Claus, etc.
2006-11-05 22:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by -.- 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing is nothing. but it does not mean it's unimportant.
the concept of "nothing" or "void" is to prove the existence of everything else. just like in the case of the number 0(zero) and 1(one), 0 is the figure that gives value to 1. 0 gives us the idea that 1 has value since the comparison has been made between the two. zero in itself has no value, but it is a figure nonetheless.
...now, have you ever heard of the saying "nothing is greater than God"?
2006-11-06 01:53:32 · answer #4 · answered by Harlequin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heidegger and Sartre go on and on about this, especially Sartre in Being & Nothingness. Responding strictly to your question, one can certainly argue the point you offer, although I don't see where that would get any of us. The way I see it, nothing is nothing, and the something we refer to when we talk about "nothing" is really the concept-of-nothing rather than nothing-qua-nothing. The limitation in human reasoning lays itself bare here, because we tend to make whatever we talk about into things. That is to say, talking about "nothing" and trying to pin it down reveals more about ourselves that it does this "nothing," which is always out of reach.
2006-11-05 22:34:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can say that. It's like saying you have no faith in the unseen, or you do not believe in God, and yet....once you have taken a position "for or against" you have made a statement of faith. This position takes you 360 and back to having enough faith to refute or support an idea...giving it validity. With me?
2006-11-05 22:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by N_UrDreams 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could agree that nothing is something, except there is no such thing as nothing. Even a total vacuum is something made up of energy & matter. No one can argue they have nothing, because it just isn't true. We have life
I cannot argue that something is nothing because there is no nothing.
OOPS> Nothing is nothing.
2006-11-05 22:16:45 · answer #7 · answered by bob h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nothing is the area that has as its least bound something. Or, to put it negatively, nothing is not something.
2006-11-05 22:19:10 · answer #8 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋