John said to Ham:
I still have problems with nothingness. I'd posit that we conceptualize
nothingness from a pre-realized sense of being. Nothingness is just too "not
there" for any kind of perceptual distinguishing.
dmb says:
Well, I don't know what "a pre-realized sense of being" is supposed mean. But I
think "nothingness" is just a reified abstraction of a very unfancy idea. We
can say there is "nothing" in my pocket or there is "nothing" in my hand. But
when "nothingness" itself is posited as a existential reality or an ontological
fact, then you've gone off the deep end. You mistakenly turned an idea into a
thing. And then you marvel at what a mysterious thing it is, becoming awestruck
by a fiction. An example of actual "nothingness" would include my interest in
"nothingness". It would be fun to diagram my interests in the form of a pie
chart.
O
Please notice the absence of the red area. It represents "nothingness". The
blue area represents my interest in Absolute Idealism, by the way, and the
white area represents my interest in good ideas.
Thanks,
dmb
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