2007-02-14 08:10:32 · 48 answers · asked by James 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
nothing
2007-02-14 08:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by wordwitty 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure is Nothing, though only when you have something!!!, although less is better, because then you can prove you don't have nothing, in which case I will take less., in which case if I have more, then I can always change my mind and have less or nothing at all.
2007-02-14 08:53:20 · answer #2 · answered by paradiseemperatorbluepinguin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A conceptual nothing is the absence of everything, an utter or absolute negation of whatever there could be, whereas an actual or realistic nothing means not the absence of everything but an absence of something, or rhetorically speaking an acute shortage of something, but this is all in comparison to something else in existence. Now, that something could be more or it could also be less depending upon its comparative relationship to other similar instances of that something - 'less' in this case can actually be more, equal or even lesser, but always more than nothing. But when nothing implies nothingness than nothing is an exact equivalence of everything – nothing is as big as everything only negatively.
2007-02-14 21:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by Shahid 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps you should ask which is least? What precisely did you have in mind? If money, you may have a debt, having a debt is having less than nothing, as you owe what you do not yet posses. More does not necessarily come into the matter, but less might. What is your starting point?
2007-02-14 08:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by funnelweb 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Less is more than nothing, I think.
2007-02-14 08:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by lisateric 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can only have one nothing, but you can have many less. So, less is more this way.
2007-02-14 09:30:45 · answer #6 · answered by Sickxually Inactive 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can be the same, eg nothing is less than one.
Less can be more than nothing eg if 1 is less than 2.
Less can be less than nothing if you allow minus quantities.
2007-02-14 08:16:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Less has got to be more, in fact there is no place for nothing. I could say I was doing nothing when I was actually doing something and that was thinking about doing nothing....eeeekkk
2007-02-18 05:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by Dr Paul D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't have less than nothing, however you can have more than less. So it has to be less!
2007-02-14 20:35:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing less than nothing. Therefore less will stand as more compared to nothing.
2007-02-14 09:21:50 · answer #10 · answered by mphermes 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
less, because less is less of something while nothing is nothing. At least with less, there is something
2007-02-14 08:14:23 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋