One differs from nothing. What your opinion on this statement?

Question

1. One differs from nothing.
2. Nothing differs from one.

What is your opinion on these statements?

Answer 1

My first thought is that it's one of those word game trick questions (haha). One is different from nothing because it is more than nothing. Nothing is different from one because it is less than one.

Answer 2

Where "one" represents a greater quantity than "nothing", I agree with both of these statements.

If "one" and "nothing" are variables of unknown value, then, assuming that the first statement is true, the second statement must also be true.

If neither of these apply, then these statements must be philosophical in nature suggesting that, although we might consider ourselves unique individuals, from the highest perspective we are really no different at all from anybody else, and they are no different than us.

Answer 3

2+2=4
3+1=4
5-1=4
6-2=4

Answer 4

I suppose it's talking about the idea that we (and everything else) do not differ from anything else. There is only one substance once you get down to a sub, sub, sub atomic level. (Obviously that's not the scientific term...) That one substance just takes on different forms.
And, likewise, there is nothing that differs from this one.
I tend to think it's all an illusion anyway; there's this sort of shared delusion that we all assume is true. This idea of one substance, though, would explain the interconnectness we share.

Answer 5

Just a trick of words and grammar. I can't nail down what these statements mean precisely. A number of paradoxes can be derived from language which are merely consequences of language.

Answer 6

Nothing differs from its self; it is not its self, it is not self. One nothing where there would be something is not the nothing that is found where an other something could be. One nothing differs from other nothing. One is not nothing, nothing is not one. They are similar; they are concept. They are not same (different); they are their self. Things are things in their self; identity. Things are in a universality; kind. Their kind is existent and non-existent; more than one kind.

Answer 7

Seems to me like statements on the connection of the world, the mind, the individual; we are one and one is we, you know, that kind of thing.