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Nothingness & Its Relation to the Universe

by Daniel J. Shepard


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Nothingness would no longer be the substance of the region ‘outside’ the universe but rather nothingness would be contained within the region ‘outside’ the universe.

But what of the ‘boundary’ containing the ‘nothingness’? Such a boundary would simply be what it is which is found to exist ‘outside’ the universe. In such a scenario, nothingness no longer is the antithesis of ‘every’ thing but rather ‘nothingness’ is a part of the whole, a part of whatever it is which composes the whole. In essence ‘nothingness’ becomes an element of the whole. Nothingness becomes a part of the All. Nothingness, through the redefinition of ‘every’ thing, now becomes a part of the ‘thesis’ versus being the ‘antithesis’ of the ‘thesis’.

One cannot find a void ‘within’ the universe.

What one finds ‘within’ the universe is, rather than a void, the void of a void. And what is the void of a void? The void of a void, being a double negation, appears to be something. But is it? Such a scenario would once again bring us back to Hegel’s process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis with one slight twist. Now instead of:


Scenario I:

00000Thesis: 0000000something
00000Antithesis: 00000nothing
00000Synthesis: 00000?

We would have:


Scenario II:

00000Thesis: 0000000nothing
00000Antithesis: 00000something
00000Synthesis: 00000?








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