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Position:Home>Philosophy> What is nothing? I think i'm confused. Please help.?Question: What is nothing!? I think i'm confused!. Please help!.!? What is nothing!?
Here's my logic/paradox: Nothing is something --> Because you can't have nothing because that itself is something!. ie!. if you send someone a box of nothing, then whats in it!? Nothing, but if nothings in it then how can there be (or not be) anything in it!? But something is something not nothing!. --> Because if you sent someone a box with something in it, and nothing it something, then is nothing in the box!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: for me, i would consider 'nothing' to be any where outside the time space dimension!. Because really, 'nothing' depends entirely on space ( as seen through your analogy of a box)!. It is quite mind blowing to actually put down the concept of nothingness, yes very mind blowing indeed!. i guess we'll have to wait for the scientists to give us some sort of explanation once they venture out further into the matter!.!.!. Good luck with your deep thinking Cheers:]Www@QuestionHome@Com you have to look at the definition of the 2 terms!. nothing is defined as no thing meaning that it is not a tangible object!. Whereas something is defined as some thing which is tangible in some way!. So while you may have sent the person something, an empty box, the contents are still nothing!. Www@QuestionHome@Com you're getting confised in language games my dear friend: confusing the linguistic with the physical!. because of the way language works, we're often lead into believing that concepts have to have some type of actuality about them!. also, everybody plays a different language game to everybody else, meaning that if someone tries to explain "nothingness" as a physical thing then their problem is that they're crossing language games with you!. like playing snakes and ladders with a pack of cards: it doesn't make sense!. read wittgenstein, he'll sort all this out for you!. clever guy, he was!.Www@QuestionHome@Com ur right nothing is something but this something is nothing nothing is the absence of something but which is something that is nothing important!.where as something is something which is not nothing and something is the absence of nothing!.!.!.!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com !.!.!. I'm not sure how to respond to that! Although it did remind me of the nonsense Jack Sparrow contantly calls "conversation" which is just confusing as hell!Www@QuestionHome@Com |