epistemology - On knowing nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Dec 3, 2024 · The Dutch 19th century writer Multatuli (the first to vehemently criticize Dutch colonialism in Indonesia) once wrote this variantion on the Liar: "Perhaps nothing is completely true, and even that isn't." –
Is there a specific sense of possibility (epistemic, logical ...
Dec 29, 2024 · If "nothingness" is only contingently a possibility, that implies that there always was something: the potential to be something; hence, nothingness can only be possible if it is necessary. Therefore, "Why is there something rather than nothing" contains the seeds of nothing's demise: contingent nothingness is not actually "nothing".
nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing ...
Oct 21, 2024 · Nothing = something + less than nothing. "Less than nothing" is another name for gravity. Sounds like somebody's crazy theory, huh? But it is one of the amazing things that Einstein discovered that almost nobody knows about: Energy stored in the gravitational field is negative mass-energy. And yes it IS simple to understand!
philosophy of mathematics - Nothingness: What philosophical …
Apr 8, 2024 · First, you are confusing the notion of nothingness with the idea that there is nothing, which is always that there is nothing somewhere. In the concept of nothingness, on the other hand, there isn't the idea of a place where nothingness would somehow be. Second, the notion of empty set is a purely technical solution to a purely theoretic problem.
philosophy of science - What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
Apr 29, 2015 · In that sense, emptiness is a physical force, and empty space is a real thing, not a 'nothing'. At the same time the Parmenidean 'Nothing' as a supernatural construct also just seems to be a misunderstanding waiting to happen. One version of the Bogomil heresy goes "Deposed, Satan had nothing. He therefore rules the world.
"nothing" and "no-thing" - is "nothing" a negative term that is too ...
Jan 12, 2016 · Does "nothing", as a linguistic term, carry within it an implied essence - one of inherent absence - one that makes what seems like negation in the above statement, actually a positive statement? And would substituting "nothing" with "no-thing" avoid this at all?
metaphysics - What is nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Jun 6, 2016 · Nothing is a problematic term; user of this term, considering nothing as a noun, are often at risk to run into linguistic traps. As you correctly state, the original meaning of the terms nothing is to negate a positive statement. But many languages allow the linguistic possibility to make a noun from words and to form the noun nothing.
What do we mean by the symbolic representation of nothing?
To get at least the semantics of simple sentences going, where 'nothing' takes subject position, let VPs denote subsets of D and add the rule: a sentence of the form NP+VP is true (relative to D) iff [VP] ∈ [NP], where NP represents quantified NPs ([VP] ([NP]) is …
How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack …
Oct 29, 2023 · Before big bang, there was nothing that was giving rise to particle-antiparticle pair(s), possibly for infinite time, if we insist to define time in that context. There must be nothing "outside" of our universe, in which the universe is expanding. In this sense, nothing can be considered as a kind of space.
Did Aristotle say "The more you know..."
I found cites, though nothing specific, to Socrates, Lao-Tse, George Bernard Shaw, and Aristotle. I did some word searches in the works reprinted at Project Gutenberg. But nothing helpful. My best guess: the original quote has become so corrupted over time that searches for a source will produce everyone and no one.