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  1. 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 …

  2. How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack …

    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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. Why is there something instead of nothing? - Philosophy Stack …

    '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 …

  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …

  7. Is there a philosophy which argues that nothing exists?

    Oct 29, 2012 · 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, …

  8. 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 …

  9. metaphysics - Can we imagine "nothing" or can we only conceive …

    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 …

  10. metaphysics - Why isn't the dictum "something can't come from …

    Nov 5, 2021 · Tautologically, something can't come from nothing because nothing isn't a thing; by definition, nothing doesn't refer to a thing at all, even to a thing that doesn't exist.