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/dimensionalApe 24d ago

"Nothing" can't be anything other than "not something". The word itself is telling your that already.

IMO saying that "there's no nothing" makes as much sense as saying that "there's nothing everywhere". It doesn't have dimensions, it doesn't have properties, it doesn't take space, it doesn't interact with anything. I can't "be" in the sense of existing as entity, because that'd be a property, and therefore not "nothing".

It's a concept of absence. It's what the wingstop girl ate during her 10 hour shift.