How could our universe suddenly appear out of nothingness?
The physicists 'nothing' is a special state called the 'vacuum state'. It certainly isn't the philosophical nothing as SteenJobs pointed out in his excellant answer. As a provocative thought one could take as two axioms: nothing comes of nothing. Nothing is easier to establish metaphysically. One then deduces that reality must be non-reality.
Did Aristotle say "The more you know..."
I found cites, though nothing specific, to Socrates, Lao-Tse, George Bernard Shaw, and Aristotle. I did some word searches in the works reprinted at Project Gutenberg. But nothing helpful. My best guess: the original quote has become so corrupted over time that searches for a source will produce everyone and no one.
epistemology - Why do we assume that we know there is a …
To truly have nothing one has to remove the whole of spacetime. But one can speculate that actually all this means is that our causally connected world disappears - something may still be left over. Similar thoughts have been expressed by theological speculation - Christian and Islamic.
Can there exist Nothing in Something? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
If you take Nothing from something something remains. If nothing cannot exist in something. how can you take nothing from something. In set Theory null set means an empty set a collection of 0 elements. But it doesn't mean nothing.the abstract collection still …
metaphysics - Why is there a God rather than nothing?
There is something rather than nothing because the state of "nothing" is UNSTABLE. Quantum Physics tells us that the state of “nothing” does not stay “nothing” for long. The key to understanding creation is in knowing that gravity is actually negative energy allowing a creation from nothing where the total energy of the universe remains ...
logic - What is the fallacy: "Nothing bad has happened, so nothing …
Jun 21, 2015 · I was talking to a small business owner the other day. When asked why they never incorporated in order to limit their liability, their explanation was, to paraphrase, "nothing bad has happened to us in the past, so nothing bad will happen to us in the future."
Something, nothing, and death - Philosophy Stack Exchange
re "But then I ask, if nothing is the end of consciousness, then in what sense does anything exist once we die?": If you consider that 2) is true, and you don't believe you're the only conciousness, then that person 'ends' so that thread of perception ends, so everything ends for that conciousness - but will remain for survivors.
Is the world of Gods substance? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Feb 11, 2014 · "something cannot come out of nothing" is the most frequently used statement used by theists to argue for the existence of a specific deity with regard to cosmology. There are however several problems with this argumentation: it springs from human observation and perception of how the world works on a human scale.
Trying to Understand Quote by Nietzsche
In poetry the 'blazon' form, compares a usually unattainable courtly love's body parts to a series of rapturous objects. It led to the 'contreblazon', like one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun'. The twist on form, makes some of those better remembered than the whole genre of blazons.
Exactly what was Wittgenstein's argument against identity?
Nov 15, 2015 · 4.242 Expressions of the form ‘a = b’ are, therefore, mere representational devices. They state nothing about the meaning of the signs ‘a’ and ‘b’. This account of the role of the identity sign is in contrast to that of the mature Frege, who initially adopted something like Wittgenstein’s view himself in his Begriffsschrift (§8) :