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Aug 28, 2003 · Nothingness. First published Thu Aug 28, 2003; substantive revision Mon Feb 28, 2022. 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 ...
- Zeno's Paradoxes
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- Holes
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- Parmenides
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- Abstract Objects
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- Existence
Conditions need not be total; that is, we do not require...
- Zeno's Paradoxes
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.
Aug 9, 2022 · An instability in the vacuum of space could suddenly spawn a rapidly expanding bubble with no interior — true nothingness. Merrill Sherman/Quanta Magazine. Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier ...
Jul 26, 2023 · And in typical physics style, what we do is we hide it under the rug until we have something better, something better to say. And that’s because, in the context of quantum field theory — what I mean by that is, before we introduced gravity into the description of nature — in the context of quantum field theory we cannot actually measure the absolute value of the energy of the vacuum.
Only because there is a world filled with Being can we imagine a dull and empty one. Nothingness arises from Somethingness, then: without being to compare it to, nothingness has no existence. Once again, pure nothingness has shown itself to be negation. A world where there is nothing is just an empty shell, you might reply; but the shell itself ...
May 31, 2017 · Two major twentieth century philosophers, of East and West, for whom the nothing is a significant concept are Nishida Kitarō and Martin Heidegger. Nishida’s basic concept is the absolute nothing (zettai mu) upon which the being of all is predicated. Heidegger, on the other hand, thematizes the nothing (Nichts) as the ulterior aspect of being. Both are responding to Western metaphysics that ...
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scribes a certain vision of reality and as such has very important philosophical implications. It is the foundation. of Nishida’s philosophy of Absolute Nothingness, which was influenced by his Zen experience.Nishida started his practice of Zen in April 1896 at Senshin’an, a small medita-tion cente. at the foot of Utatsuyama in Kanazawa ...
