RE: Nothing (was: RE: Changing One's Mind)

From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 19 2002 - 08:10:27 MDT


 Damien Broderick [mailto:d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au] wrote:

It's much worse than that. We started out debating whether there could
conceivably be nothing rather than something. Most people immediately
dodged this hard question, and galloped around explaining that one
something could really be another something in disguise, or that a more
fundamental something could switch off a derivative something.

### Here's my answer to the hard question - something, as well as
everything, must exist, because nothing did.

With some effort I might try to make a career as a Zen monk, too.

Rafal



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