Answer by stephen v watson for Can something be nothing?
or, perhaps better stated, A is A and therefore cannot be B or C or D or anything other than itself: A.
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Generally speaking the law of noncontradiction states that contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time, e.g. the two propositions "A is B" and "A is not B" are...
View ArticleAnswer by Hunan Rostomyan for Can something be nothing?
I think what has confused you is the usual grammatical role of "nothing." It appears in sentences like:(1) Nothing is what I got for Christmas. (2) I gave her everything, asking for nothing in...
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I am confused about this question. It may have a simple answer of which I have overlooked.Can something be nothing?Because I believe nothing must be something, like a fact or idea of no thing existing....
View ArticleAnswer by Alistair Riddoch for Can something be nothing?
We don't make up words and then tell the words what to be.We see "what is"... and we make up words to describe "what is".Start with the "what is"... and then decide what to call it.Nothing... we call...
View ArticleAnswer by Kevin May for Can something be nothing?
Let's explore a few viewpoints:Absence of Existence: From a literal standpoint, nothingness represents the absence of anything. In this sense, nothing is the absence of something, and therefore, it...
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