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Is Nothing Something?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Is nothing something? Or is nothing the absence of something? Or is something the absence of nothing?<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing only exists because of the idea of something, because nothing only exists because of something. Nothing is the opposite of something. If there was something and now there is no longer that something, you say there is nothing. Therefore you could say that nothing can only exist if there was the existence of something there at one point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or is nothing just that, nothing? If nothing is nothing, then it is not something, right? <\/span><\/p>\n

When you use the double negative of nothing, \u201cnot nothing\u201d, you mean something, so then nothing is something.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you think, is nothing something, or is just that, nothing?<\/span><\/p>\n

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