if nothing was actually nothing it wouldn't have a word to describe it so therefore it must be something. right or wrong?
2007-02-07 05:53:35 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Nothing is nowt, with squat added to it minus zip which equals diddley sh*t
2007-02-09 04:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How did the wind and the sun and the earth come to be named. There are things in this universe that we know nothing about. Thus, no name as yet, but there. So, is nothing as we think about it, nothing, or in the future something. It is like seeing something, that you don't know what it is, but it's there. Is it nothing because you can't name it?
2007-02-07 20:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is a concept of an idea of a non existent sate. nothing from nothing leaves nothing, is a valid argument. Nothing exists in that statement, but only in the concept of something.
The concept or perception of nothing exists. As long as a mind is alive that can conceive a nothing, it will exist.
It is an adjective to describe a state of non existence. So it exists.
Right.
2007-02-07 14:22:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The name for nothing is nothing. It is a concept, not an object.
Also, why blame us for having a word to desribe emptyness, the absence of objects, & a list of 0 items? (when it is quite useful for us to have this word)
2007-02-08 09:30:07 · answer #4 · answered by profound insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming the word "nothing" is the name of something.
Please learn some vocabulary.
The word nothing is not a noun. It is a non-compounded word contracting the phrase "Not any thing."
Examples:
Not any thing is there.
Not any thing is wrong.
Not any thing matters.
Though these phrases are abnormal uses of the English language and appear to form incorrect grammar, these are logical and grammatically stable phrase illustrating the expanded form of the word "nothing."
2007-02-07 23:14:44 · answer #5 · answered by Steven James 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is correct. Nothing is something (void of something) b/c it exists in the human mind (well thats debatable, but for the sake of arguing yourt point...)
Nothing usually just means lack of somehting (eg matter)
2007-02-07 14:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by Unconvincable 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nice question. We can't discuss anything without naming it, or at least indicating it.
But we can introduce a non-thing into our discussion, simply by naming or indicating it.
Does that make a non-thing into a thing?
The answer is, it doesn't matter. The word "thing" is infinitely stretchy.
2007-02-08 10:10:34 · answer #7 · answered by Recumbentman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We use language to communicate with eachother.Its a way of expression.Hence if someone has express something which involves "nothing" some word has to be used to express it.That word in nothing.Its expressing a thought.Not that there is something or that it is something.
2007-02-07 15:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by K P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question. Yes, nothing IS something, so in reality, there is no such thing as nothing. Even empty space is "something." I could go on and on, but that's what I think in summary.
2007-02-07 14:02:48 · answer #9 · answered by stevepg82 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing is alwase nothing in reality.
In your mind you make it into something by labeling it as the lack of something and give it the name 'nothing'
2007-02-07 15:16:37 · answer #10 · answered by justin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋