I found cites, though nothing specific, to Socrates, Lao-Tse, George Bernard Shaw, and Aristotle. I did some word searches in the works reprinted at Project Gutenberg.

In that sense, "nothing" exists as "something" and its "removal" or subtraction. I believe there is something like this in Kant's demonstration of space as the intuition of "positionally" without content.

For example, we ask questions like: Why is there something rather than nothing? it implies that we know the characteristics of what constitutes nothing and something. What if what we perceive as

While it will always be ambiguous, what is a good philosophical definition for nothing? If there really isn't any consensus (as it seems to me), then the answer automatically is something in the line: " No, it ain't easy at all ", and then pointing why it …

Is it possible for Nothing to exist in Something ? e.g. if something is the whole set can nothing be an element of it ? If you take Nothing from something something remains. If nothing cannot exist in something. how can you take nothing from something. In set Theory null set means an empty set a collection of 0 elements.

Consider for a moment the classic question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" My favorite answer is a terribly funny statement by a stand up comedian in Hebrew: "eem ein ein, az yesh ye...

Theists ask, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" How would they answer the question, "Why is there a God rather than nothing?" Is this a valid objection to theism?

Jun 21, 2015 · I was talking to a small business owner the other day. When asked why they never incorporated in order to limit their liability, their explanation was, to paraphrase, "nothing bad has happened to ...

Feb 23, 2012 · If we know nothing how do we know that we do indeed know nothing? Sounds like self contradictory statement.

May 11, 2015 · Melissus reaffirms Parmenides by explaining how there cannot be many without the existence of that which is empty, and since that which is empty is nothing, and nothing can't exist, thus there cann...