But your 20s avant guardist actually *did* something in relation to
his act! My pianist just sits there. There's a difference, don't you
think? In your case something is given, in my case nothing is. There
is no mystery in your case. The mystery in mine is why some people
thought they had
The question contains its own answer. The Nothing, the Everything
[the All as I call it], and various Somethings are not mutually
exclusive but rather they are simultaneous.
Hal Ruhl
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Hi. I've been reading the postings of this group
for
awhile but haven't yet posted anything on my own.
However,
the question of "Why is there something rather than
nothing?" is of interest to me, so, if you're
interested
here are my thoughts.
Overall, my answer to the question of "why i
Of course, it's supposed to be confusing, one is supposed to ponder it in its
aporia.
I didn't consider a naming operator. Objectual quantification, which I've taken
Quine at his word that it's the standard kind, does not require that everything
in the variable's range be indicable, able to b
Benjamin Udell wrote:
> In standard first-order logic, the phrase "everything exists" would be taken
> to trivially mean "“that, that is, is," or the like. Is there a way to say it
> in a non-trivial sense in first-order logic at all? Is it an idea that can be
> logically expressed at that basic
I think that an alternative that deserves more consideration than it usually
gets (though I don't embrace it, I just consider it), is the idea that
existence, though not contradictory, is a non sequitur -- that there's
something brute & arbitrary about it.
Some people hold the view that others
Norman Samish wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who replied to my question. This question has
> bothered me for years, and I have hopes that some progress can
> be made towards an answer.
>
> I've heard some interesting concepts, including:
> (1) "Numbers must exist, therefore 'something' must exist."
>
well, john cage is a musician who people talk about a great deal more
than listen to
> Somebody once wrote a piece of music which in fact involved not
> writing a piece of music at all.
>
> The score of the piece merely instructs the pianist to sit down, open
> the lid of the piano and wait out a
> --- Kim Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Somebody once wrote a piece of music which in fact
>>involved not
>>writing a piece of music at all.
>>
>>The score of the piece merely instructs the pianist
>>to sit down, open
>>the lid of the piano and wait out a period of 4' 33"
>>then cl
Norman Samish wrote:
Thanks to all who replied to my question. This
question has bothered me for years, and I have hopes that some progress
can be made towards an answer.
on.
A state of pure "NO THING" would forbid even the
existence of numbers, or of empty space, or of a
OK, Norman,
here is my challenge to your 'new' question to answer
without retrospection or self-reference:
Why do we speculate?
And don't you speculate too long on the answer.
John M
--- Norman Samish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied to my question. This
> question
Thanks to all who replied to my question. This question
has bothered me for years, and I have hopes that some progress can be made
towards an answer.
I've heard some interesting concepts, including:
(1) "Numbers must exist, therefore 'something' must
exist."
(2) "Something exists because N
Norman, Stephen, Brent, list
>>> "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
>>> When I heard that Famous Question, I did not assume that "nothing" was
>>> describable - because, if it was, it would not be "nothing." I don't
>>> think of "nothing" as an empty bitstring - I think of it as th
Kim,
you described an epigon (I suppose) It happened in the
20s at an 'avant-guard' performance that the pianist
walked in with a big hatchet and chopped the piano to
pieces, then took a bow and left. (I did not call that
a concert).
People like to expect what they are used to.
John
--- Kim Jon
Kris Kristofferson sings, "Nothing ain't worth nothing but its free."
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Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Hi Norman,
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>
>>"Why is there something rather than nothing?"
>>
>>When I heard that Fa
Hi, Stephen,
when I first made the mistake of barging int ontology
I started from "Nothingness" and continued: once it
becomes aware of it's nonexistence it starts to exist
and realizing its emptyness it became "Somethingness".
I had a good laugh. Since then (~1990?) I don't think
in "so smart"
Gentlemen:
George Levy's moral is correct.
George's encounter with his wife reminds me of a similar
encounter with my wife.
I told her, "Some people feel that there is something rather
than nothing because everything can be represented by strings of numbers, and
numbers must exist. Do
George:
Thanks for this delightful story (..ies?)
I met Chaitin once for a brief chat and did not like
him: he was too sharp for me (though very friendly).
His quoted idea is something I will keep to use it
against closed-minded physicists (or provide it to
open-minded wifes of them).
John
Hi Norman,
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Subject: Why is there something rather than nothing?
>
> "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
>
> When I heard that Famous Question, I did not assume that "nothi
Norman Samish wrote:
>
>"Why is there something rather than nothing?"
>
> When I heard that Famous Question, I did not assume that "nothing" was
> describable - because, if it was, it would not be "nothing." I don't think
> of "nothing" as an empty bitstring - I think of it as the absence of
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