On 05 May 2012, at 13:49, ronaldheld wrote:
Does nothing mean zero or the empty set in this thread?
There are as many notions of nothing/everything that there are notion
of things.
Nothing can be interpreted in many ways, differently for each theory
candidate to be a theory of
On Sat, May 5, 2012 John Mikes jami...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it so hard to understand a word?
Yes, the word nothing keeps evolving. Until about a hundred years ago
nothing just meant a vacuum, space empty of any matter; then a few years
later the meaning was expanded to include lacking any
Some thoughts about nothing:
- If nothing has no properties, and a limitation is considered a property,
then nothing cannot have any limitations, including the limitation of
generating something. Therefore, something may come from nothing.
- Given that something exists, it is possible that
On Sat, May 5, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
That depends on what you mean by nothing.
1) Lack of matter, a vacuum.
2) Lack of matter and energy
3) Lack of matter and energy and space
4) Lack of matter and energy and space and time.
5) Lack of even the
On Sun, May 6, 2012 ramra...@gmail.com wrote:
There are many ways something can exist, but just one of nothing
existing. Therefore, nothing is less likely :-)
EXCELLENT! I wish I'd said that; Picasso said good artists borrow but
great artists steal, so no doubt some day I will indeed say
On 05.05.2012 23:34 meekerdb said the following:
On 5/5/2012 1:07 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
...
According to Prof Hoenen, the logic of trinity was at that time
basically in the blood. He gave several examples including even Marx.
According to Prof Hoenen, the logic in Marx's Capital is the
On 5/6/2012 1:06 PM, R AM wrote:
Some thoughts about nothing:
Hi Ricardo,
I like these thoughts (as they imply questions!)!
- If nothing has no properties, and a limitation is considered a
property, then nothing cannot have any limitations, including the
limitation of generating
On May 6, 1:06 pm, R AM ramra...@gmail.com wrote:
Some thoughts about nothing:
- If nothing has no properties, and a limitation is considered a property,
then nothing cannot have any limitations, including the limitation of
generating something. Therefore, something may come from nothing.
On May 6, 1:33 pm, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 5, 2012 Craig Weinberg whatsons...@gmail.com wrote:
That depends on what you mean by nothing.
1) Lack of matter, a vacuum.
2) Lack of matter and energy
3) Lack of matter and energy and space
4) Lack of
On 06.05.2012 20:04 Stephen P. King said the following:
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[Side note: This is where we start to see that our words can be such to
sometimes have only other words as referents and sometimes have actual
objects (not words) as referents. (I wish we could get a semiotic theory
expert to join us!
On 5/6/2012 10:51 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 05.05.2012 23:34 meekerdb said the following:
On 5/5/2012 1:07 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
...
According to Prof Hoenen, the logic of trinity was at that time
basically in the blood. He gave several examples including even Marx.
According to Prof
On 5/6/2012 3:25 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 06.05.2012 20:04 Stephen P. King said the following:
...
[Side note: This is where we start to see that our words can be such to
sometimes have only other words as referents and sometimes have actual
objects (not words) as referents. (I wish we
On May 6, 4:06 pm, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote:
Newton, Boyle, Tyndall, Descarte, Laplace,
Kepler,...none of them were from the universities, which were dominated by
theology.
All of them were still theological thinkers though, as were Bacon,
Copernicus, Paracelsus, the Islamic
On 5/6/2012 5:47 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On May 6, 4:06 pm, meekerdbmeeke...@verizon.net wrote:
Newton, Boyle, Tyndall, Descarte, Laplace,
Kepler,...none of them were from the universities, which were dominated by
theology.
All of them were still theological thinkers though,
Theological
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