
What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Apr 29, 2015 · 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 …
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 …
If nothing is preventing something from existing, must it exist?
Sep 25, 2023 · There is nothing to prevent me from creating a passible likeness of Bertrand Russell by carving a turnip- that does not mean that I must create it. Indeed, were that not the case, my house …
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' …
philosophy of mathematics - How can zero exist if zero is nothing ...
Oct 16, 2023 · I understand why it has to exist, but how can zero exist, if zero is nothing, then nothing is something witch means that zero cant exist, I have seen similar questions but I still don't get it, he
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 …
Is Nothing actually imaginable? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Sometimes, answers are simple. Nothing cannot be imagined because one does not imagine absences of anything, only things (which may lack something, but then you are merely imagining a thing …
A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing
The title of the question - A Theory That Explains Everything Explains Nothing - is said to be a quotation attributed to philosopher of science Karl Popper, but there's no consensus on whether he
Why do humans think that something starts with nothing?
So nothing can come into being "from nothing" If we try to claim that this is a merely grammatical point, and that are merely denying that the coming-into-being of a thing has a cause, we run into an …
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 …