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- What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
5 Krauss' definition of nothing is the result of the allergy contemporary physicists get from philosophy; the philosopher David Albert posted a crushing criticism of the book in response and started a terrible fight: Where, for starters, are the laws of quantum mechanics themselves supposed to have come from?
- epistemology - On knowing nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
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 "
- How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
The question should be 'How can something come out of nothing' not 'Why cannot something come out of nothing' Stephen Hawkings has recently argued as to how the universe can come out of nothing, but to my mind his argument is rather circular and it's not provable
- metaphysics - What is nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
How can nothing be real? The basic concept of nothing is the lack of something, so in that statement alone it makes it something The bible says that in the beginning there was a void and nothing
- Nothingness cannot be. Does that imply something must be?
If nothing existed, for example as an empty set, then something would exist, the empty set, in any possible way that can be If something exist we cannot say that nothing exists
- existence - Something and Nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Nothing is the mystical or ineffable experience of the empty field of awareness which we paradoxically think of as something To speak of nothing is to evoke the distinction between nothing and something in the domain of arising concepts
- Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists?
That nothing exists is posited in medieval ontology In this attempt mysticism arrives at a peculiar speculation, peculiar because it transforms the idea of essence in general, which is an ontological determination of a being, the essentia entis, into a being and makes the ontological ground of a being, its possibility, its essence, into what is
- Can nothing have size? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
If "nothing" is encapsulated by "something", does this imply it has size? For example; imagine I have a 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter box which encloses a complete vacuum Does the vacuum have a si
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