An Essay on Nothing

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An Essay on Nothing

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Sophia Gottfried meditates on the emptiness of non-existence.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/136/An_Essay_on_Nothing
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Re: An Essay on Nothing

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nice essay...

fill the box with Schrodinger's cat...

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Re: An Essay on Nothing

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One theory considers the possibility that a person who dies is not absolutely nothing.

Could be true and could be forever out of the box.
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Perceptive Nothingness is simply not Nothingness. We can set aside every word in the essay before Pure Nothingness. For each example of (Perceptive) Nothingness in the first part of the essay, there was Something: a corpse; a living person who exists but is absent; a collection of light, air and dust. Everything in the first part of the essay held the property of Somethingness.

The second part of the essay provides an argument for the impossibility of Nothingness (Pure, Absolute Nothingness). That part is a decent read.
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