Excellent questions, you seem to have a potential knack for metaphysics.huphuphup123 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 04, 2025 3:05 amSo first you are saying absence of absence = somethingEodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 6:39 amhuphuphup123 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 27, 2025 9:20 pm I understand that, negation of negation leads to a positive.
But I dont understand what happens after, wouldn't you just have positive=positive infinitely? How do you get the next thing? How would you get something and nothing seperate, yin and yang?
Nothing is the means by which the actual occurs for what is actual cannot be unless it has the potential to do so. For something to move it must have the space to do so. Nothingness is potentiality. The potentiality of potentiality is actuality.
Think of a 0d point.
It is nothing.
When it becomes distinct relative to another 0d point a line emerges as the space between them. A single point is indistinct as there is no comparison for it to be distinct, a 0d point becomes distinct relative to another 0d point.
The 0d point is a potential line. When the 0d point, potentiality, becomes recursive a line occurs. The repetition of potentiality is actuality by degree of the process of repetition. Actuality is a process and process allows the emergence of limits through change. Without change there are no limits for there is no contrast.
Things occur from nothing by the voiding of nothing for complete potentiality must have the potentiality of actuality if it is to be complete potentiality.
The voiding of nothing, the voiding of potentiality, is actuality by which is the distinction that we can conceive nothing as an absence for absence is a distinction and as a distinction is actual.
In simple terms nothing is complete absence and a complete absence must reflect an absence of absence for a complete absence is absent of absence.
Double positives are interesting too for a "positive of a positive" necessitates a gradation of positives by which one positive lacks what is present in another thus leading a form of an absence in one relative to another, a form of negation.
Double negatives result in a positive. Double positives result in a negative.
It is a recursive sequence that results in variations by each sequence.
Void is the means by which change occurs and change allows distinctions through contrast to other distinctions. Being arises through change and void is the means by which change occurs by allowing for the potentiality of said change.
Ok.
But then what I don't understand is, so if there's only something, then it would be something=something as it is the only thing that is there
but you are saying something=something is the same as saying something=not-something because the second is smaller than the first.
But the problem is, won't something=not-something just negate back into not-something again and than not-something = not-something turns back into something and it just loops, how does it progress?
To address your points:
An absence is a relative lack of something, a relative lack (this relative nature has to be emphasized), much in the same manner a tree lacks the wheels of a car.
The lack in this case is a distinction of relationships, one thing lacks what is present in another.
Now this relative lack, absence, is a distinction of a relationship. As a distinction of a relationship it is simply a distinction. A distinction is a thing, this is obvious for the most part, given we know things purely by distinction and all distinctions are but things.
Absence is a distinction. As a distinction it is a thing, albeit conceptual, and as a thing exists.
Now absence is a distinction. The absence of an absence points to several things:
1. It is a distinction within a distinction as a further distinction, a distinct is existence for we know existence as distinctions. So an absence of absence is saying a distinction of distinction. This is a repetition, a layering of distinctions as a new thing.
2. Absence is relational. One thing lacks what another thing has. If the lacking thing lacks the lacking then it ceases to lack. The negation self negates.
Now for your "something equals something", equality is a relationship of things. To say equality is to point to a relationship. If something is equal to itself then effectively it exists in different states, different dimensions, different time/space coordinates all of which are but different contexts. If context defines than one thing has multiple definitions if it exists in multiple contexts. Equality is a relationship. It is best to say "the tree is" rather than "the tree is the tree" to keep things simple.
Now "something=not-something" observes this relational dynamic for several reasons.
Something and nothing are defined by contrast, one stands apart from the other so that each are distinct. Without being distinct they cease to exist for they cease to be things.
In this case one is presence, the other is absence.
Regardless of how they stand apart they both share the same nature of being distinctions and this nature of each being distinct is not only a point by which both equivocate foundationally, yet differ in appearance (this is called isomorphism: same foundations, different appearance).
In another respect their necessary contrast of eachother allows the other to exist thus contradiction is necessary so a thing appears for what it is. In simple terms we know good things because of evil things, we know left because of right. Contrast gives identity, contrast is a form of contradiction, thus contradiction is necessary for identity.
So one thing exists because of the other, creating a cycle between the two. One thing repeats because of the other, thus another cycle. Order occurs because things repeat: the repetition of a 90 degree angle gives rise to a square. A habit of exercising to stay fit is the repetition of the act of exercising. Cycles occur where there is order and a cycle is merely repetition.
So the absence of absence results in a presence, presence being the cycling of absence.
The presence of presence results in an absence, absence being the cycling of presence.
As you correctly seen it is a cycle and this cycle results in a dualism (which you probably noticed at least intuitively).
So....dualism...is that it? No. Dualism results in infinite grades just like a dualism of white and black results in infinite different shades of gray.
But the metaphysics of dualism resulting in infinite grades?
1. There is a presence.
2. This presence results in an absence.
3. There is a dualism of presence and absence.
4. This dualism is present.
5. The presence of this dualism results in a corresponding absence.
6. There is a dualism of the dualism being present and the dualism being absent.
7. This dualism of dualism is present.
8. This presence of a dualism of dualism results in a corresponding absence.
9. There is a dualism of dualism of dualism
10. This process repeats infinitely, these meta-dualism are but grades or rather infinite variations.
11. Dualism and infinite grades exist simultaneously.
So...yes it is circular...but the circle keeps progressing thus linearism also occurs.
Nothingness is the means by which change occurs for a thing can only change if it has the space to do so, this space for allowed change potentiality. We only know existence by change for change allows contrast and contrast allows things.
Pure nothingness is pure potentiality, an infinite number of things all existing at once. When a distinction is made the possibilities collapse into the event of the thing and yet this event exists within potentiality thus allowing it to change and gain contrast to relative other things for everpresent potentiality allows things to continually change...and we know only through change.