From: a_rod_777@yahoo.com   
      
   On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 2:29:58 PM UTC-6, litewave wrote:   
   > On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 6:45:10 PM UTC+1, a_rod_777 wrote:   
   > > On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 9:13:24 AM UTC-6, myriadsma...@yahoo.com   
   wrote:   
   > > > "Whether something exists depends on what you mean by "existence". To   
   me, anything that is not nothing "exists". Anything that is not nothing is   
   part of reality. Of course, it only exists in the sense in which it is defined   
   (and it should be    
   defined consistently in relation to itself and to everything else, because   
   inconsistently defined "objects" are nothing)."   
   > > >    
   > > > Cartesian!   
   > >    
   > > But what is nothing? Even an empty void is something.   
   >    
   > An empty void is indeed something, not nothing. It is a mathematical   
   structure with certain mathematical properties.   
   >    
   > Nothing is absence of something. It has no identity. Every something has an   
   identity, which means that it is identical to itself and different from what   
   it is not - it is what it is and is not what is not. In other words, every   
   something is    
   consistently defined. A circle that is not a circle, is nothing.   
      
   If nothing isn't something, then how can you refer to it?   
   Nothing is indeed something... it is a concept.   
      
   Beyond the illusions of physicality are the roots of what we know as reality.    
   These are the archetypes which create the shadows on the wall we think of as   
   "things".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)