Hi,
> There is a real existing "nothing" and there is a concept nonexistence
> and they should never be confused. The real nothing is common,
> "nothing in the refrigerator", a white canvas, empty space (the ideal
> or direction toward i.e., expansion). The real nothing is simply
> balance, uniformity, perfect symmetry.
Hmm - your real existing nothing is just a word without referent - like
a null pointer.
Q: "What is on the paper?"
As answer you expect that what is written.
As the paper is still blank:
A: "Nothing."
You are being returned a null pointer, not a metaphysical reference to
balance, uniformity, symmetry or whatever.
Your concept of _nonexistence_ would then be a metaphysical null
pointer. Attributing either concept some kind of "existence" is major
metaphysical error IMHO.
> It isn't a cancellation of
> properties or existence, it is a unification or synthesis into a
> single form, which we see as nothing. Cook everything in the frig
> together and you end up with one thing with far fewer properties. That
> property-less "one" in mathematics is zero.
These are all features of language. I recommend Niiniluoto's "Critical
Scientific Realism" how to resolve these issues - indeed, how they have
been resolved through diligent work of many philosophers (that does not
mean that there is no disagreement anymore ;-))
> converging toward an infinitely small value. What we are doing is
> fragmenting zero, we are slicing it up into parts, and since our
<snip>
You seem to have a certain preconception of what a number is; or at
least develop a conception which one must not naturally share.
> high symmetry internally while relative to zero they are perfect
> asymmetry) and time evolves towards a whole other kind of order
> (unity, balance, perfect symmetry) which is actually the infinite
I suppose you do not mean the heat death of the universe. But what would
perfect symmetry be but heat death?
Regards,
Günther
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Günther Greindl
Department of Philosophy of Science
University of Vienna
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http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/
Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/
Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org
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