Hi Thracian:
Welcome to the discussion. Some more “ponderings” as a result of
your post about zero:
“Is” presumes “Is not.”
Hillary Clinton: ”I know nothing.”
To be or not to be are both states of being.
There must be nothing for there to be something
There is nothing which is not. Things that are not, are.
There must exist the concept of nonexistence to believe existence
exists.
The bases for all logic and mathematics are the concepts of many, one
and none.
The basic question for philosophy is “Why is there something rather
than nothing?”
Pirsig:
Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable in the sense that
there is a knower and a known, but a metaphysics is none of these
things. A metaphysics must be divisible, definable and knowable, or
there isn’t any metaphysics.
Pirsig:
The word ‘quality’ is superior to ‘oneness’ and ‘nothingness’ because
it is impossible for scientists to reject it as metaphysical claptrap. They
try, but they cannot get away with saying there are no values in the
world. Even a so-so philosopher can cut them to pieces dialectically.
Platt
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