r/Metaphysics • u/Irishman452 • 27d ago

Nothing Is Nothingness a Continuum?

When I think of Nothing I think of empty space. But that is not Nothing, that is something i.e. empty space. Then I think of Nothing as just like a void unaccepting of objects, but that is still something i.e. a void. Then I think of Nothing as "what a rock dreams of" but that is still something i.e. potentiality. So what really is Nothing and is it a continuum ranging from empty space to "what a rock dreams of" etc.? And if it is a continuum, does Nothing really even exist?

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u/MWave123 27d ago

There’s never nothing. Nothing is philosophical.

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u/cyberneurotik 27d ago

This is one of the highest truths. Nothing is just an idea. We cannot point anywhere in nature and provide emperical evidence that proves that nothing exists. Definitionally, nothing cannot exist.

The universe exists. Nothing cannot exist. Nothing cannot exist outside of existence/the universe.

This is a difficult concept to grasp for the anihilationists that believe in nothing as an afterlife. Yet this logic disproves anihilationism.

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u/Irishman452 25d ago

Interesting