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What is the definition of natural abstraction?

Is literally "nothing" what is without definition?

  • e.g. A made-up word like "gsksedf" is a word without definition, it doesn't refer to anything or entity. A thing or entity without definition, "gsksedf," is literally nothing. Right? I have been thinking about the creation story in the Bible a lot lately, and the creatio ex nihilo doctrine, and the Christian doctrine of the Logos, whom Christians hold that all things were made by this Logos, the Word, Reason. Reading the creation story, God, by his speech alone, is giving definition which both creates contrast and brings contrasting entities into existence. The contrasting aspect between entities of this narrative is intriguing because what defines anything is known by contrast, by knowing what something is and what it is not, or knowing what something means and knowing what that same something doesn't mean. So my question is, am I on the right track in thinking that if there is no contrast, there can't be definition, and if there isn't definition, then what is left is quite literally "nothing."?

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    Yes.

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Naguru

Nothing IS something in one sense: an idea, the idea of there not being anything. People often mistake this as 'something' well in one sense it is. The opposite of anything real so you COULD say nothing is not real unless you say it's simply an idea,

Logic / Reason / Evidence

Nothing is the absence of anything. The color of can't remember.

Philosophy 101

Yes, that's what I believe. Some things just can't be defined... it is NOT a THING so you say it is nothing Interesting question though.

S♥

Yes, that's what I believe. Some things just can't be defined... it is NOT a THING so you say it is nothing Interesting question though.

S♥

Nothing IS something in one sense: an idea, the idea of there not being anything. People often mistake this as 'something' well in one sense it is. The opposite of anything real so you COULD say nothing is not real unless you say it's simply an idea,

Logic / Reason / Evidence

Nothing is the absence of anything. The color of can't remember.

Garfield 101

Not actually. Any'thing' can have a definition without having an antonym. Lets say 'process' is a thing. Does it have an antonym?? Yet it is defined. Your 'gsksedf' is literally nothing because you haven't assigned anything to it. But still it could be defined as 'that thing which you chose to use to ask a question on yahoo answers'

dissociatedprenihilist

Not actually. Any'thing' can have a definition without having an antonym. Lets say 'process' is a thing. Does it have an antonym?? Yet it is defined. Your 'gsksedf' is literally nothing because you haven't assigned anything to it. But still it could be defined as 'that thing which you chose to use to ask a question on yahoo answers'

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