You're confusing formalism with metaphysics. Emptiness isn't nothingness. Emptiness presupposes something that is empty of something expected to fill it, the a

You'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.