Thread: Does nonexistence exist?

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

If nonexistence exists, then how is it nonexistence? If nonexistence does not exist, then how is it not between two triangles that share a side? Also, (Marc's idea in another thread) if nonexistence does not exist, does the nonexistence of nonexistence exist? If it does, wouldn't that be an example of how nonexistence does exist?

Originally Posted by Omnis Dei

nonexistence nonexists, just as neither existence nor nonexistence doesn't exist nor nonexist

your logic makes my head hurt....

Category error baw.

"Non-existence" exists as merely a concept and nothing more.

Otherwise, there's nothing to talk about.

Originally Posted by really

"Non-existence" exists as merely a concept and nothing more.

Otherwise, there's nothing to talk about.

Then what is between two rectangles that share a side?

This sentence is a lie.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Then what is between two rectangles that share a side?

If they share a side, there is no "between" them.

Originally Posted by really

If they share a side, there is no "between" them.

But you're talking about it?


So it is a concept, and nothing more.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

But you're talking about it?


So it is a concept, and nothing more.

We talk about two different rectangles, and that they share a side. Drawing such a diagram, we see the shared side is no longer a side at all.

Now, they "share a side", and thus: They're united as one larger rectangle, and the sides disappear into each other. Thus, the sides no longer exist, and thus, no line to be drawn, unless we reconsider them as separate.