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> Pure nothingness has no potential for creation In mathematics, at least, this is not true. For example, a set consisting of the empty set is not empty.
by Koshkin 7y ago
> Pure nothingness has no potential for creation
In mathematics, at least, this is not true. For example, a set consisting of the empty set is not empty.
- bobthechef 7y agoYou're confusing formalism with metaphysics. Emptiness isn't nothingness. Emptiness presupposes something that is empty of something expected to fill it, the absence of something not the total absence of anything. Absolute nothingness isn't empty because there's nothing that can be empty. Nothingness is not a something, but people here seem to be reifying the notion.
- Dylan16807 7y agoBecause you can't get rid of the potential to reify.
- brankoB 7y ago"Pure nothingness" would be the empty set, not a set with something in it.
- Dylan16807 7y agoYes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.
- brankoB 7y agoHow does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?
- Dylan16807 7y agoBy being the contents that make that set exist.