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March 26, 2008

The Language of Nothing

Filed under: Nothingness, Studio — artfink @ 6:05 pm

Just going back to the beginning today, looking where I came from in thinking of Nothing, I looked at the definition again on the net:

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and it struck me what a huge, complex Something ‘Nothing’ is defined as…Nine meanings and nineteen subsections…

Definition 3 struck me the most:

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No matter what we do we can’t escape from Nothing. All there is is what is – Something.

In trying to define it, it is automatically a paradox. There is no such thing as Nothing, so ‘it’ cannot be defined. All of the above ‘Nothings’ are not really Nothing at all, they are attempts to define ’something’ which doesn’t exist. Something none of us have ever perceived…I’m tempted to say ‘by definition’ – but that is where the problem lies – in our language – our definition is of ’something’ that doesn’t exist, we apply a label to ‘it’ in our daily lives. But there is no ‘it’. All that there is, is.

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Again. Something that is…nonexistent. Something that is…not.

Nothing is not a Something.

Nothing just Is Not.

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