
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
metaphysics - Does physical reality exist without an observer ...
Jul 9, 2024 · Consciousness- or human consciousness at least- has nothing to do with it. Indeed, many quantum physics experiments generate results without humans watching, since they are highly …
Does any physical entity last forever? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Oct 3, 2024 · 0 Does it matter? Pun intended. If the universe is not supposed to last, why would any matter last? If the universe is supposed to collapse at one moment, everything would have the same …
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' …
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 …
Because nothing exists, nothing also does not exist
Jun 6, 2016 · 5 Because nothing exists, nothing also does not exist. If you look at nothing as the opposite of something. The existence of one requires the existence of the other. But since one …