Re: Existence as predicate

From: Paul Holbach (paulholbachSPAMBAN_at_freenet.de)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 11:41:52 -0700

> "Tarald Andresen" <tarald.a@online.no> wrote in message news:<
> hCVYc.4155$WW4.58365@news4.e.nsc.no>...

> Nothingness/emptiness cannot exist (an "empty space" has no content - it
> "consists" of nothingness - thus the concept 'empty space' must also be
> empty, have no content). Thus there is nothing that can disconnect any
> matter from other matter, and so everything is connected (to matter).

No, your "thus" is a non sequitur.
There certainly cannot be any such thing as nothingness (Iīm not
saying there couldnīt be nothing!), but nothingness is not emptiness!

"The so-called field equations of Einsteinīs general theory of
relativity--which forms the basis of modern scientific
cosmology--admit of solutions in which space is entirely devoid of
matter and energy. So, mathematically, at least, it seems that the
notion of perfectly 'empty' space is perfectly coherent."

[Lowe, E. J. (2002). /A survey of metaphysics/. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. (p. 256)]

#PH

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