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   nothing

   /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

   pronoun

   • 1. not anything; no single thing: "I said nothing" Similar not a thingnot a single thingnot anythingnothing at allnilzeronowtinformal:zilchnixnot a dicky birddamn allnot a sausagesweet Fanny Adamssweet FAzipnadaa goose eggbupkisvulgar slang:bugger allsod allfuck allarchaic:noughtnaughtOpposite something
   • ▪ something of no importance or concern: "‘What are you laughing at?’ ‘Oh, nothing, sir’" Similar a matter of no importance/consequencea trifling mattera triflea piece of triviaa (mere) bagatelleneither here nor thereinformal:no big deala person of no importancean unimportant persona person of no accounta nobodya nonentitya ciphera non-persona lightweightsmall beerOpposite celebrity
   • ▪ (in calculations) no amount; nought. Similar zeronought0lovea duck

   adjective

   • 1. having no prospect of progress; of no value: informal "he had a series of nothing jobs"

   adverb

   • 1. not at all: "a man who cared nothing for her"
   • ▪ used to contradict something emphatically: "‘This is a surprise.’ ‘Surprise nothing.’"

   Word Origin Old Englishnān thing (see no, thing).

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2. www.livescience.com › 28132-what-is-nothingWhat Is Nothing? Physicists Debate - Live Science

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   Mar 22, 2013 · Nothing is not easy to define, even for scientists. Learn about different ideas of nothing, from empty space to mathematical concepts, and why they matter for physics and philosophy.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › NothingNothing - Wikipedia

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   Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything as the opposite of something and an antithesis of everything. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC.

5. plato.stanford.edu › entries › nothingnessNothingness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Aug 28, 2003 · Nothingness. Since metaphysics is the study of what exists, one might expect metaphysicians to have little to say about the limit case in which nothing exists. But around the fifth century BCE in China, India, and Greece, philosophers turned from what is, to what is not (Sorensen 2022).

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   What does 'nothing' mean?

   • "For us nothingness represents something that we're afraid of, disorder, a breaking of the rules." Ultimately, the definition of nothing may just be an ever-moving target, shifting with every scientific revolution as new insights show us what we thought was nothing is really something. "Maybe nothing will never be resolved," Tyson said.

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   What is the concept of nothing?

   • The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist. The atomists allowed nothing but only in the spaces between the invisibly small atoms. For them, all space was filled with atoms.

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   What is the difference between 'thing' and 'no-thing'?

   • The ‘things’ (or lack of) quantified over by every-thing and no-thing are of the object language, whereas the type of ‘thing’ that Everything and Nothing are are of the metalanguage. This avoids Nothing being a thing of the same type that there are no-things of.

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   What does 'nothing' mean in philosophy?

   • In philosophy, to avoid linguistic traps over the meaning of "nothing", a phrase such as not-being is often employed to make clear what is being discussed. One of the earliest Western philosophers to consider nothing as a concept was Parmenides (5th century BC), a Greek philosopher of the monist school.

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   What is the difference between everything and nothing?

   • As nouns, Nothing and Everything can only be considered things themselves in the higher level or order of the metalanguage, which speaks about the object language. The ‘things’ (or lack of) quantified over by every-thing and no-thing are of the object language, whereas the type of ‘thing’ that Everything and Nothing are are of the metalanguage.

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   Is nothing a real thing?

   • Nothing. (Or is it no-thing?) Zen Buddhism explains that true nothingness is absolute, not relative—beyond the realm of things. Our earlier attempts at elucidating Nothing and no-thing were very much conceptually related to things, and so to get a truer, more absolute nothingness, we must go beyond no-thing/thing and no-thing/Nothing.

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7. theconversation.com › what-is-nothing-martin-reesWhat is nothing? Martin Rees Q&A - The Conversation

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   Aug 15, 2018 · In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, explains that when physicists talk about...

8. www.youtube.com › watchNeil deGrasse Tyson Explains Nothing - YouTube

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   In this StarTalk video, we’re talking about nothing. Not in the Seinfeldian sense, but in the science sense. What is nothing? Neil explains how our usual def...

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9. iep.utm.edu › metaphysics-of-nothingThe Metaphysics of Nothing - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   This article considers different metaphysical and logical understandings of nothingness via an analysis of the presence/absence distinction, by considering nothing first as the presence of absence, second as the absence of presence, third as both a presence and an absence, and fourth as neither a presence nor an absence.

10. phys.org › news › 2014-08-what-is-nothingWhat is Nothing? - Phys.org

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    Aug 22, 2014 · Is there any place in the Universe where there's truly nothing? Consider the gaps between stars and galaxies? Or the gaps between atoms? What are the properties of nothing?