Hi, > There is a real existing "nothing" and there is a concept nonexistence > and they should never be confused. The real nothing is common, > "nothing in the refrigerator", a white canvas, empty space (the ideal > or direction toward i.e., expansion). The real nothing is simply > balance, uniformity, perfect symmetry.
Hmm - your real existing nothing is just a word without referent - like a null pointer. Q: "What is on the paper?" As answer you expect that what is written. As the paper is still blank: A: "Nothing." You are being returned a null pointer, not a metaphysical reference to balance, uniformity, symmetry or whatever. Your concept of _nonexistence_ would then be a metaphysical null pointer. Attributing either concept some kind of "existence" is major metaphysical error IMHO. > It isn't a cancellation of > properties or existence, it is a unification or synthesis into a > single form, which we see as nothing. Cook everything in the frig > together and you end up with one thing with far fewer properties. That > property-less "one" in mathematics is zero. These are all features of language. I recommend Niiniluoto's "Critical Scientific Realism" how to resolve these issues - indeed, how they have been resolved through diligent work of many philosophers (that does not mean that there is no disagreement anymore ;-)) > converging toward an infinitely small value. What we are doing is > fragmenting zero, we are slicing it up into parts, and since our <snip> You seem to have a certain preconception of what a number is; or at least develop a conception which one must not naturally share. > high symmetry internally while relative to zero they are perfect > asymmetry) and time evolves towards a whole other kind of order > (unity, balance, perfect symmetry) which is actually the infinite I suppose you do not mean the heat death of the universe. But what would perfect symmetry be but heat death? Regards, Günther -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
