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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 ...
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Mar 14, 2024 · Nothingness is the state of nonexistence, or the absence of anything. Although that explanation seems simple, its concept had troubled physicists and philosophers over the ages. When I was in college many decades ago, I used to contemplate thoughts of infinity and the results of dividing by zero. My physics professor told me not to think about ...
This nothingness is a negation of expectation: expecting something and being denied that expectation by reality. It is constructed by the individual human mind, frequently through comparison with a socially constructed concept. Pure nothingness, on the other hand, does not contain anything at all: no air, no light, no dust.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1956) Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, Hazel E. Barnes (trans.), New York: Philosophical Library. Henry Sheffer (1913) ‘A Set of Five Independent Postulates for Boolean Algebras, with Applications to Logical Constants’, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 14: 481–488.
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Abstract: Exploration of the philosophical necessity in Fundamental Ontology of the concept of Nothingness as seen in the philosophies of Bergson, Kojeve, Sartre in relation to the Divided Line which is the Core of the Western worldview and the philosophy of Differance by Derrida and Being (crossed out) by Heidegger.
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Apr 29, 2015 · In the context of a "universe from nothing," it means the absence of anything capable of being observed (directly or indirectly) by human beings. A "lower degree" would be "vacuum," which is the absence of matter/particles. A "higher degree" would be "absolute nothing," which would be the absence of everything - matter, particles, energy ...
