2007-03-11 18:12:30 · 9 answers · asked by The Knowledge Server 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Science and Philosophy have explored nothing and it took nothing in the amount of effort to explore it, sadly they came up with nothing so nothing has been published on the matter.
2007-03-11 19:21:27 · answer #1 · answered by Steven S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question should have been more specific as to what you mean by 'nothing' in this case. I would imagine you are talking about 'nothingness' Parmenides talked about.
In short, Parmenides says that 'nothingness' is impossible because 1) it lacks conceptual definition and 2) it has no ontological status: that is to say the word 'nothing' cannot be identified with any thing or any stuff.
A bit of Philosophy of Language is useful here. Say...
Philosophy explores Science : this makes sense. But when you say...
Philosophy explores XXXXX : your immediate reaction is what's that XXXXX? The point is this, anything that lacks connotation or denotation cannot be comprehended by human. So 'nothing' as it lacks both connotation and denotation, it cannot be comprehended. In that sense,
Science and Philosophy cannot explore nothing; this is just another way of saying Science and Philosophy can explore things with either connotation and/or denotation.
2007-03-12 06:25:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you mean to say........
Why can't science and philosophy not explore anything?
Using the word cannot with the word nothing is a double negative and grammatically incorrect
I think your question isn't a valid question because both science and philosophy do explore things all the time.
2007-03-12 02:46:23 · answer #3 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say in science we can not because there doesn't appear to be any such thing. There is always energy everywhere. Nothing is a concept, an idea, not a concrete reality.
Philosophy can surely explore nothing. As much as any mind can attempt to conceive of nothingness, there philosophy is being done.
2007-03-12 01:29:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting Question...if I take your meaning.
Do you mean... if there is an absolute void or a nothingness, then science nor philosophy cannot analyze which is not visible or does not exist? Is this your meaning?
However, philosophy utilizes thought, and thoughts can extend what is beyond real or unreal, what exist or what doesn't.
2007-03-12 03:09:38 · answer #5 · answered by thoughtsandtheliberation 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both don't believe them self. Like we cant see the air but living in this world as breathing. but there is something in both science and philosophy. the answer know only the person who think on his own way for all resolve all his problems in this world.
2007-03-12 01:51:32 · answer #6 · answered by ourladyhelp_poor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in order to explore nothing you would have to have nothing to examine. Get a big bag of nothing for me and I'll happily explore it for you. If you could, the nothing would be diluted with something (air, bag molecules, dust, atoms, dander, etc.) The closest we've gotten to nothing is anti-matter, which is technically anti-something, but anti-something is still something even if it's the opposite of something. Will we ever have an answer to the paradox of nothing? I've thought long and hard about it, but so far, I got nothing...
2007-03-12 12:52:38 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Psychosis 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What CAN explore nothing?
2007-03-12 02:19:22 · answer #8 · answered by ghds 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh?
2007-03-12 01:16:08 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋