'identity' of Everything And Nothing

Imagine Nothingness ‘Absense of Everything’ Call it ‘0 Something’ , 0 something = itself (law of identity). Itself is Nothingness ‘Absense of Everything’ so its 0 Everything (note lower case ‘Everything’ becuase nothingness cannot be 0 EVERYTHING, for example: 0 limit (impossible in nothingness), 0 nature (nothingness has a nature). so not even nothingness has 0 EVERYTHING.

back to my point, if 0 something = 0 Everything then the inverse would be Something or rather somethingness= Everything. Is there a law or theorem that proves that 0 somethingness = 0 Everything is the same thing inversely: Somethingness= Everything? by merely taking out the 0 it gets the opposite effect, from nothingness, to Everything - is this a real math/logic/law??!

No, its division by zero. (invalid)

mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html

No. Its not division at all. Its basically identity. It is true that 0 something-ness = 0 everything but it is also true that Somethingness = Everything. A=A There’s only contradiction when you assume that they are opposites to the point that you no longer see them as 2 different definitions.

0 Somethingness and Somethingness are perhaps opposites but more than that they are definitely different definitions (and functions) to work with.

theres nothing knowledge extensive with this point. :frowning:

I don’t follow. Please elaborate:

What do you mean by “the inverse” of x?
When you notate “0 x”, do you mean “0 times x” or something else?
How would you define something-ness? As the property all things that are “something” share?
What exactly is the difference between everything and EVERYTHING?
What does it mean to say that somethingness=everything?

Thank you and sorry if this is all obvious for you. Just trying to learn.

yorick,

I know philosophy? I’m a student too. :slight_smile:

:smiley: Just trying to figure out what the terms and notations you use mean. Surely you know yourself? Because if you don’t, anything you write using them doesn’t really mean anything…

I think I get what you’re saying cc, and it makes sense in a sort of crude way (but I think you need to flesh out the details of how you describe your ideas - be a bit more elaborate).

Here’s what I think:

0 something means there are no things… at all… so nothing.

If we drop the 0 from “something”, then there is at least 1 thing that exists… so there must be an Everything.

What jumps out at me, based on this, is that something IMPLIES Everything. I don’t know if you can say something = Everything.

I guess in a way you CAN say this, but it depends on what you mean by “something”. Usually, one uses the word “something” to refer to a particular thing, like a chair or a book, and I certainly don’t think that either one counts as Everything. But there is another sense in which “something” can be construed as meaning “everything” - namely, in that it means somethingness. Somethingness is the quintessential definition of “everything” (at least, to a first approximation).

So… it boils down to ‘something → everything’? I get that, though it seems kind of obvious.