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Originally Posted by MySiddhi
"nothing" is the logical negation of "thing", do you understand this?... Are you seriously going to argue for some ad hoc semantics on "thing"? lol
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You have not defined "nothing" and you have not defined "thing". Because of this, the "A" you are using is undefined and cannot be accepted as an accurate representation of reality.
When ill-defined, we can indeed have both A=A and A=~A, in which case A=A is not a Tautology.
I would direct you to the thread by our illustrious Doctordick entitled "
What Can We Know of Reality?" This is really a prerequisite to even beginning to try to validate your "proof."
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Originally Posted by MySiddhi
"a power vacuum" is a metaphoric figure of speech. When dealing with LOGIC you must use LITERAL expressions.
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"Nothing" is not literal! It requires definition! As you can see from
the thread I have directed you to on the topic it is a word with endless nuances and contradictions.
In that thread we have played endlessly with the word nothing. "I see nothing": is nothing the absence of anything? Then how can you see nothing on the Earth when what most people mean is that they see "air." Air is certainly not nothing.
To get this back to what appears to be your ultimate goal here, when many people look for God, they see nothing, thus your Tautology "Nothing is nonexistence. - Something is essentially existence" would seem to provide perfect proof of the non-existence of God. Q.E.D.
The point is that if its not provably "literal" you are absolutely correct, it would have no validity in finding truth values to all of your statements of Predicate Calculus.
In other words, its meaningless.
You should have
listened to Bob Jones!
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Originally Posted by MySiddhi
At the moment this is my magnum opus. It is the product of years of research... it is one of the most profound philosophical pieces ever written given that it is extremely geometrically concise as well as completely founded on absolute truth.
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My, "humble," aren't we?
For the sake of a few fine imaginative or domestic passages, are we to be bullied into a certain philosophy engendered in the whims of an egotist?
Buffy
