How can nothing be existent?
2007-11-26 02:30:29 · 16 answers · asked by Holly Carmichael 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If something "is" it exists.. If there is nothing..then that is all that exists. For if there is something..then nothing ceases to be. *runs for coffee and an aspirin*
2007-11-26 02:35:08 · answer #1 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have found a quirk of language, not of existence.
"Nothing" is a word that stands in for a condition of absence. It can refer to an absence of matter, ideas, or any thing that can be discussed.
"Existence" stands for a quality if tangibility or an ability to be considered. If something can be discussed, it can be said to exist, at least in the form of an idea. It does not necessarily mean, however, that it is physically manifest.
A vacuum may therefore be said to exist. Within the space it occupies, there is, by definition, nothing there, but it is the space that contains it that we refer to. In the same way, once we begin to discuss the concept of nothing, it become an idea that DOES exist (in theoretical form), but only because in our language, in order to discuss something, we must bring it into conceptual being.
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2007-11-26 02:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is a name that humans gave to the idea that there is a physical way of doing nothing, having nothing, or lacking nothing, or other metophors.
Even though you are right, if there is truly nothing, nothing cannot exist, which means nothing exists.
2007-11-26 02:36:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
nothing is a word therefore it exists
nothing is the word that describes non existence therefore it exists
`I see nobody on the road,' said Alice.
`I only wish _I_ had such eyes,' the King remarked in a fretful tone. `To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance, too! Why, it's as much as _I_ can do to see real people, by this light!'
2007-11-26 02:41:49 · answer #4 · answered by ! 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There isnt anything which is nothing. Not even in space there's always somthing. If nothing is really nothing then by labelling it as nothing quantifys it as being something. If infact nothing is the absence of something, then it would need to exist seperately to everthing. My head hurts! Damn you and your questions!!! (Im only joking, interesting thought).
2007-11-26 02:41:27 · answer #5 · answered by james h 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing doesn't exist. Something that exists exists.
2007-11-26 02:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by Arthur Googy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Similar argurments- Darkness doesn't exist- it is the absence of light. Cold doesn't exist- it is the absence of heat. Nothing doesn't exist- it is the absence of something.
2007-11-26 02:38:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Conundrum alert! Unanswerable question.
2007-11-26 02:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by rico3151 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look carefully at the word and examine its roots.
2007-11-26 02:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is the antithesis of something
antithesis n. , pl. -ses ( ). Direct contrast; opposition. The direct or exact opposite:
2007-11-26 02:38:14 · answer #10 · answered by Patti_Ja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋