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  1. philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing ...

    Oct 16, 2023 · Or as an empty container. In my experience, zero is never defined to be "nothing" in mathematics, thinking of zero as nothing is a strictly nonmathematical conception of 0. There is some …

  2. metaphysics - Can we imagine "nothing" or can we only conceive a ...

    Jun 11, 2025 · Nothing! -- Yeah, well, but that's not absolute nothingness, isn't it? Philosophical discourse about "nothing" always seems to dissolve into something like the Monty Python sketch of …

  3. nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing ...

    Oct 21, 2024 · Throughout the history of time, it has been almost everyone’s intuition that something cannot come from nothing. That intuition is so strong that many can’t even imagine this to be false. …

  4. How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    Oct 29, 2023 · 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 …

  5. truth - There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are ...

    Nov 23, 2023 · There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are these words of Shakespeare,inspired by Marcus Aurelius, true? Ask Question Asked 2 years, 2 months ago …

  6. Why is there something instead of nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange

    'Nothing' might be a result of 'something'. There was always 'something' but this 'something' is not always the same. Sometimes it changes in to 'something' else. This means that the 'something else' …

  7. metaphysics - Why isn't the dictum "something can't come from …

    Nov 5, 2021 · Tautologically, something can't come from nothing because nothing isn't a thing; by definition, nothing doesn't refer to a thing at all, even to a thing that doesn't exist.

  8. After death there is immortality or nothing [closed]

    Nov 3, 2024 · After death there is Immortality or Nothing If you were to die, then what do you think would happen to you? In best case, you go to heaven, and you live there forever in eternal bliss, but how …

  9. Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists?

    Oct 29, 2012 · 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 …

  10. All I know is that I know nothing. Does this statement of Socrates ...

    Nov 18, 2023 · Regardless of attribution, this could be interpreted as profound wisdom or a suggestion that things are ultimately unknowable. It certainly seems to indicate humility. Does any of this still …