Re: Why is there something rather than nothing?

From: Georges Quenot <Georges.Quenot.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:32:22 +0100

Hal Ruhl a écrit :
>
> Hi Georges:
>
> The key division of my list of possible properties of objects is:
> [empty [read the "Nothing"]:all other properties [read my All[perhaps
> the Everything]]]. The Nothing is incomplete [there is a meaningful
> question it must answer but of course can not] and the All is
> complete [the list contains itself] and thus inconsistent. I do not
> see a number having either property so a number can not take the
> "place" of the Nothing and I do not see any number being able to
> describe the Nothing - the empty string is not a number [IMO]. As
> for the All - numbers are not internally inconsistent. Finally, if a
> number can not describe the Nothing then how can a number describe
> the All which is the Nothing's "is not" partner?

I do not understand. You are considering objects that would not
have any property at all and objects that would simultaneously
have all imaginable properties?

Georges.

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