Is nothing something?

[ShinRa]

If nothing is something, but something isn't nothing, how is nothing something?

Discuss.

 

[Darkside55]

No, nothing isn't something! What are you, some kinda retard?!

Seriously though, no. Look at it like this: if I have nothing on the table, is something on the table? No.

 

[Absinthe]

But you do have something on the table. Nothing!

 

[ShinRa]

But you do have something on the table. Nothing!

See? But if nothing is the absence of something, wait, that would still be something.....The absence of something, is something? The plot thickens....

 

[Darkside55]

Nothing is a concept. It is not actually on the table.

 

[ShinRa]

Nothing is a concept. It is not actually on the table.

A concept is something.

 

[RandomX]

"something" could also be a concept... "something" is too vague, it can be anything... and if something = anything, then who knows where else this could lead to...

 

[Absinthe]

Nothing is a concept. It is not actually on the table.

That's what you think. :O

 

[Calhoun]

That's what you think. :O

Yeah. These cleaning bills to get nothing off of my clothes are outrageous!

 

[Darkside55]

I will retract my previous statement about nothing being nothing. Nothing is the absense of something; therefore, it in itself is a thing beyond a concept, but it is not a thing in any material sense.

I had a chat with my good buddy Gmork, and he told me all about it. He spent a summer working for The Nothing.

 

[Stigmata]

Nothing is an idea.

THERE ARE NO IDEAS

 

[Absinthe]

Thanks for the nightmarish flashbacks to when I watched that scene as a kid.

 

[Bad^Hat]

It depends on the context of 'something', whether it's material or just conceptual. In a larger sense, everything is something, therefore nothing is still a thing. So yeah... maybe. I guess.

Who put this fork in my brain?

 

[Vegeta897]

Look at it like this: if I have nothing on the table, is something on the table?

Wait wait I know the answer to this one...

What table?

 

[RandomX]

The answer is cake... and we all know the cake is a lie, so that in turn means the table is a lie... and I can further expand it to say your existence is a lie.

 

[Ennui]

Nothing is something, but only in the sense that it is a word with a definition. The application of the conceptual term "nothing" to describe existence implies a lack or absence of 'something' and thus nothing is not essentially something when actually applied to true situations.

 

[RandomX]

So nothing is something when it's false, Ennui?

 

[Stigmata]

True. I suppose it's like asking if a hole consists of dirt. It's what's around the hole that makes the hole a hole, and it's the lack of actual things that makes nothing something.

[edit] Actually I don't know, it's 4am so that might not make sense or say what I wanted it to say.

 

[RandomX]

It's 4 AM here too, so your post automatically makes sense to me because my brain is half asleep.

 

[[Matt]]

0 isnt something. 0 is just a concept. But a concept is something.

Discuss...

 

[[Matt]]

I will retract my previous statement about nothing being nothing. Nothing is the absense of something; therefore, it in itself is a thing beyond a concept, but it is not a thing in any material sense.

I had a chat with my good buddy Gmork, and he told me all about it. He spent a summer working for The Nothing.

oh and that film brings back sweaty palmed memories with my first girlfriend as an 11 year old...

 

[Gunner]

You guys can sure talk a lot of nonsense.

 

[Hellrider]

Nothing is the G-man.
Discuss.

 

[Krynn72]

Nothing but everything is nothing something or something, sometimes.

 

[Absinthe]

Maybe.

 

[spunge]

You guys can sure talk a lot of nonsense.

I think he's on to nothing

 

[Bad^Hat]

I think he's on to nothing

Let's do something to him!

Or not.

:O

 

[AKIRA]

I will retract my previous statement about nothing being nothing. Nothing is the absense of something; therefore, it in itself is a thing beyond a concept, but it is not a thing in any material sense.

I had a chat with my good buddy Gmork, and he told me all about it. He spent a summer working for The Nothing.

lmao

 

[CyberPitz]

Pfft, everybody knows nothing is what nothing is is what nothing is is what nothing is what nothing is what nothing is what nothing is what nothing is what nothing is what nothing is......

 

[Raziaar]

I have it. It has to be something!

If it wasn't something, could I even possibly have it?

 

[ShinRa]

I have it. It has to be something!

If it wasn't something, could I even possibly have it?

But if it wasn't something, that means it was nothing. But nothing is something, right?

 

[Raziaar]

But if it wasn't something, that means it was nothing. But nothing is something, right?

But it is something... I possess it. If somebody asks me, "Hey man, what do you have?", I simply respond, "I have nothing". That's possessive man!

I possess nothing!

 

[ShinRa]

Yes you do. You do possess the absence of something. Enjoy it. =]

 

[Raziaar]

I wonder how much I'd get for it at a pawnshop.

 

[Solaris]

Something, is a quantity. Nothing is a quanity. If nothing is not something, then the number zero does not exist.

 

[Krynn72]

Nothing, is a quantity. Something is a quantity. If something is not nothing, then numbers do not exist.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Thats what she said.

 

[CyberPitz]

Thats what she said.

Leave my mom out of this.

 

[Pesmerga]

I got a single fry in my basket of buffalo wings.

Wtf.

 

[Stigmata]

I got a single fry in my basket of buffalo wings.

Wtf.

Well isn't that something.