How would you describe nothing?
How would you describe everything?
2007-06-28 15:14:43 · 9 answers · asked by mommymanic 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What would you give as a description... not Webster's version. Do you find it easy or hard?
2007-06-28 15:23:30 · update #1
Everything is relative.
A rich person might say a $20 bill is nothing. My wife might say the contents of my brain are nothing, or close to it. To me (not just my brain), nothing is 0, null, void, nada, emptiness, darkness, and several other definitions from the dictionary.
Philosophically - nothing is life without meaning or purpose, an empty or hardened heart, or a lack of compassion and trust.
As a baby boomer, there is no such thing as having everything. There is never enough. I want it all and I want it now. Your questions are making me think and I get sleepy or crossed eyed (due to drinking large quantities of red wine) when I think.
Philosophically - You can never have everything, because the more you have, the more you want. Therefore, everything can best be described as . . . infinity.
2007-06-28 15:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by Trader 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is an oddity of certain languages. Puzzling too much about a very unusual language will only lead to more questions.
Early and protolanguages didn't even have this concept. Humans created the concept of no-thing, some-thing, or every-thing, and any-thing.
In philosophy, nothingness is generally the very unpleasant state that many philosophers suffered during their existential crises. This was particularly true of the pre- and post- WWII German philosophers.
2007-06-28 15:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is the opposite of everything and everything is the opposite of nothing.
Ha! Kidding.
Nothing is a void, a state of emptiness.
Everything encompasses having all of the elements to satisfy a particular feeling - i.e., in order to be completely happy, we may say we need everything our hearts desire - this "everything" might be a subjective description of all of the items that would contribute to our happiness in some way: family, money, job security, etc.
2007-06-28 15:18:28 · answer #3 · answered by Hershey 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nothing- the lack of material items, animals, humans, ideas; not having anything or a lack of existance. Quite literally "no THING"
Everything- All concievable and existing beings (living and dead), ideas, items tangable and intangable, facts; All things that there are to know, hold, see, hear, have, and experience, etc. All of the things that make up this earth. Quite literally "every THING"
2007-06-28 15:22:09 · answer #4 · answered by Zarango 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so glad you asked this question! I have often posed this seemingly simple question but have yet to find an answer. Maybe that's the beauty of nothing...and everything. If life were without mysteries, without questions...then what would be the point of living? Maybe these are questions that we shouldn't be asking.
2007-06-28 17:48:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, the absence of everything
Everything, the absence of nothing
2007-06-28 15:19:52 · answer #6 · answered by gabrielle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The absence of anything
The presence of all things (possible). ~
Piece of cake.
2007-06-28 15:23:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is the vacuum
Everything is the filler
2007-06-28 15:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by Le Petit Fleur 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nothing is absolute zero for everything
everything is exactly that, everything that you could imagine and more
2007-06-28 15:24:03 · answer #9 · answered by rob w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋