Answer an essay on nothing
Step-by-step explanation:
In philosophy there is a lot of emphasis on what exists. We call this ontology, which means, the study of being. What is less often examined is what does not exist.
It is understandable that we focus on what exists, as its effects are perhaps more visible. However, gaps or non-existence can also quite clearly have an impact on us in a number of ways. After all, death, often dreaded and feared, is merely the lack of existence in this world (unless you believe in ghosts). We are affected also by living people who are not there, objects that are not in our lives, and knowledge we never grasp.
Upon further contemplation, this seems quite odd and raises many questions. How can things that do not exist have such bearing upon our lives? Does nothing have a type of existence all of its own? And how do we start our inquiry into things we can’t interact with directly because they’re not there? When one opens a box, and exclaims “There is nothing inside it!”, is that different from a real emptiness or nothingness? Why is nothingness such a hard concept for philosophy to conceptualize?
Let us delve into our proposed box, and think inside it a little. When someone opens an empty box, they do not literally find it devoid of any sort of being at all, since there is still air, light, and possibly dust present. So the box is not truly empty. Rather, the word ‘empty’ here is used in conjunction with a prior assumption. Boxes were meant to hold things, not to just exist on their own. Inside they might have a present; an old family relic; a pizza; or maybe even another box. Since boxes have this purpose of containing things ascribed to them, there is always an expectation there will be something in a box. Therefore, this situation of nothingness arises from our expectations, or from our being accustomed. The same is true of statements such as “There is no one on this chair.” But if someone said, “There is no one on this blender”, they might get some odd looks. This is because a chair is understood as something that holds people, whereas a blender most likely not.
The same effect of expectation and corresponding absence arises with death. We do not often mourn people we only might have met; but we do mourn those we have known. This pain stems from expecting a presence and having none. Even people who have not experienced the presence of someone themselves can still feel their absence due to an expectation being confounded. Children who lose one or both of their parents early in life often feel that lack of being through the influence of the culturally usual idea of a family. Just as we have cultural notions about the box or chair, there is a standard idea of a nuclear family, containing two parents, and an absence can be noted even by those who have never known their parents.
This first type of nothingness I call ‘perceptive nothingness’. This nothingness is a negation of expectation: expecting something and being denied that expectation by reality. It is constructed by the individual human mind, frequently through comparison with a socially constructed concept.
Pure nothingness, on the other hand, does not contain anything at all: no air, no light, no dust. We cannot experience it with our senses, but we can conceive it with the mind. Possibly, this sort of absolute nothing might have existed before our universe sprang into being. Or can something not arise from nothing? In which case, pure nothing can never have existed.
If we can for a moment talk in terms of a place devoid of all being, this would contain nothing in its pure form. But that raises the question, Can a space contain nothing; or, if there is space, is that not a form of existence in itself?
This question brings to mind what’s so baffling about nothing: it cannot exist. If nothing existed, it would be something. So nothing, by definition, is not able to ‘be’.
Is absolute nothing possible, then? Perhaps not. Perhaps for example we need something to define nothing; and if there is something, then there is not absolutely nothing. What’s more, if there were truly nothing, it would be impossible to define it. The world would not be conscious of this nothingness. Only because there is a world filled with Being can we imagine a dull and empty one. Nothingness arises from Somethingness, then: without being to compare it to, nothingness has no existence. Once again, pure nothingness has shown itself to be negation.
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Answer:
B 5/12
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
its b
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Answer:
b is 62 a is 118 c is 59 I have to get 20 characters
what is the tangent ratio of angle x°
Answer:
tan x = 3/4
Step-by-step explanation:
The hypotenuse of the triangle is 10 ft.
For angle x, the opposite leg is 6 ft, and the adjacent leg is 8 ft.
tan A = opp/adj
tan x = 6 ft / 8 ft
tan x = 3/4
(-4+2)•(-5+3)/-3 please help
Answer:
-4/3
Step-by-step explanation:
(-4 + 2) • (-5 + 3)/-3
=> -2 • (-2)/-3
=> -2 • 2/3
=> -4/3
Therefore, -4/3 is your answer.
Hoped this helped.
Answer:
The answer is -4/3.
Step-by-step explanation:
(-4+2) = -2
x (-5+3) = -2
-2 x -2 = 4.
=-4/3
WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST! what are the values of a and b so the system of equations has infinitely many solutions?
y=6x+b
y=ax+3/4
Answer:
a = 6
b = 3/4
Step-by-step explanation:
They both need to have the same slope.
The slope in the first equation is 6
That means that the second equation must have a = 6
They both need to have the same y intercept
The second equation has a y intercept of 3/4
Therefore b in the first equation, must be 3/4
14.) Which numbers are in order from least to greatest?
O 79%, 0.55, 1/4
O 1/4, 0.55, 79%
0.55, 1/4, 79%
O 79%, 1/4,0.55
Answer:
The second one or B
Step-by-step explanation:
1/4 = 0.25 then 0.55 then 79% = 0.79
Use the function z=7c to find the value of z when c=8.
Answer:
z = 56
Step-by-step explanation:
z = 7(8)
what is .072 divided by 345.00
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation: if its .072
or if it 0.72/345.00
0.00208695652
what is greater -5 1/2 or -6.5
Answer:
-5 1/2
Step-by-step explanation:
-5 1/2=-5.5 which is closer to 0
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GUIDE:
> is greater than
• is the GREATER THAN the other number
< is less than
• your number is LESS THAN the other number
≥ is greater than or equal to
• it means that either a number is greater or equal to the other number
≤ Is less than or equal to
• it means that either a number is less or equal to the other number
= is equal
• it means that it is equal to the other number
SOLVING FOR YOUR ANSWER!
-5 1/2 __?__ -6.5
-5 1/2
= -5 * 2 + 1 / 2
= -10 + 1 / 2
= -11 / 2
= -5.5
= -5.5 > -6.5
Therefore, your answer should be:
-5 1/2 > -6.5
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Divide 120ml into the ratio 3:7
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
sum of ratio=3+7=10
total=120 ml
first part=3/10×120=36 ml
second part=7/10×120=84 ml
is it Substitution or linear combination?
Answer:
Substitution
Step-by-step explanation:
You would solve this system using the substitution method as one of the variables are define.
In other words y = x + 3 defines y with the expression "x + 3" and we are easily able to substitute this into the other equation for y and solve of x.
Sally's Stuffed Animal Company charges $0.75 per pound to ship stuffed animals. Part A: Write an equation to determine the total cost, c, to ship p pounds of stuffed animals. Use your equation to determine the cost of shipping 2 pounds of stuffed animals. (6 points) Part B: If the company reduces the cost to ship the stuffed animals by $0.05 per pound, write an equation to determine the total cost, c, to ship p pounds of stuffed animals with the reduced cost. (4 points)
Answer:
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Pls pls I just need the equation to this thank you so much!
Answer:
5.00+5.5+5.10+5.15+5.20+5.25= x
x is whatever the cost is.
if you want x, it is.... 31.2
or
y=5.00+5.5+5.10+5.15+5.20+5.25
If you want the equation in linear form (as in y= _x+b), then it is:
y=0.001x
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Step-by-step explanation:
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Erin and Jamie are collecting shells while the tide is out Erin has 27 shells and she has 9 more shells than Jamie write an equation for this situation and find how many shells Jamie has collected
Answer:
27-9= 18
Step-by-step explanation:
Erin's total shells is 27, her total is 9 more shells than Jamie has. Thus you subtract 9 from 27 to get the number of shells Jamie collected.
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Answer: D. <Q ≅ <T
Step-by-step explanation:
This satisfies the ASA Congruency Theorem.
Evaluate 5−1/−90. Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.
Answer:
2/-45
Step-by-step explanation:
5-1 = 4
4/-90 = 2/-45
Hope that helps
2,38 x 5,6 + 9,52 hljkjkk
Answer:
22.848
Step-by-step explanation:
just type it into a calculator dawg
10x1+2x60/10
Hi! Um I have only four questions on an assignment thats due Friday, this is one of them and I keep getting stuck, can someone please help me out?
Answer:
2
Step-by-step explanation:
Which pairs of angles are alternate interior angles? Select all that apply.
A. 3 and 6
B. 3 and 8
C. 4 and 5
D. 4 and 7
E. 1 and 8
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An ant looks up at an angle of elevation of 30degrees to the top of a tree. If the ant is 40 feet from the base of the tree, what is the height of the tree, to the nearest tenth?
a.
23.1 feet
b.
25.2 feet
c.
32.8 feet
d.
34.6 feet
Anaswer Let the height of the tree be
y
ft. By condition;
tan
38
=
y
43
or
y
=
43
tan
38
or
y
=
33.6
ft [Ans]
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The CORRECT answer is
C. 32.8 feet Got it correct
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The points (2, -4), (x,y), A and B all lie on the line in the applet below. Find an equation relating x and y
Answer:
y=3/4x-5.5 this should be your answer
Step-by-step explanation:
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At a restaurant your total bill is $45. Sales tax is 5%. What is your total bill after tax?
Answer:
47.25
Step-by-step explanation:
Heres how I found the answer:
if sales tax is 5%, then we need to find 5% of 45 and add it to 45!
5% of 45= 2.25
(I found this by doing 45*5%, or 45*.05)
Now, add 2.25 to 45!
Total bill=47.25 dollars
Hope I could help!
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Find the value of the discriminant for the quadratic equation. Then, describe the number and type of roots for the equation.
25x^2 -20x + 4 = 0
Answer:
real and equal roots
Step-by-step explanation:
because at end of calculation,0=0
May I please receive help?
Answer:
Length of the shadow = 20.5 cm
Step-by-step explanation:
Given the 32-meter height of a tall building, and its casted shadow of 38 meters, we can find the unknown length of the shadow by using the Pythagorean Theorem.
Definition:The Pythagorean Theorem states that the squared length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squared lengths of the legs.
The algebraic representation of the Pythagorean Theorem is:
c² (hypotenuse) = a² (leg₁) + b² (leg₂)
SolutionTo solve for the given problem:
Let c = 38 m (distance from the top of the building to the tip of the shadow)
a = unknown length of the shadow
b = 32m (height of the building)
Since we have to solve for the value of a (unknown length of the shadow), we must algebraically solve for a:
c² = a² + b²
Subtract b² from both sides:
c² - b² = a² + b² - b²
a² = c² - b²
Substitute the given values into the formula for solving a :
a² = c² - b²
a² = (38)² - (32)²
a² = 1444 - 1024
a² = 1444 - 1024
Next, take the square root of both sides to solve for a:
[tex]\displaystyle\mathsf{\sqrt{(a)^2}\:=\:\sqrt{420}}[/tex]
a = 20.49 or 20.5 cm
Therefore, the length of the shadow is 20.5 cm.
Mrs phillubum has $200 in her bank account and is saving at a rate of $25 each week.
identify the coefficient in the term 7x^2y^3
The coefficient in the term 7x^2y^3 is 7
The term of the expression or equation is given as:
7x^2y^3
For an expression represented as 2x, the coefficient is 2.
Similarly, the coefficient in the term 7x^2y^3 would be 7
Hence, the coefficient in the term 7x^2y^3 is 7
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In the figure shown below find the value of a, round to the nearest tenth.
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What did the wall say to the bookcase 4. 2 puzzle time answers.
Answer:
meet you at the corner
Step-by-step explanation:
Deshaun has 38 carnival tickets.
It costs 5 tickets to ride the roller coaster.
How many rides can he take?
Answer:
7 rides
Step-by-step explanation:
38/5=7 with a remainder of 3. He need 5 tickets to ride so he can only take 7 rides.
does 7x+3x-8 = 2(5x-4) have one solution, no solution, or infinitely many solutions?
Answer: only has one solution
Step-by-step explanation: If you find the answer for 7x+3x-8, youll get 10x+8. This will be the same answer for 2(5x-4). Making them equal and having only one solution
Answer:
x has infinite values.
Step-by-step explanation:
7x+3x-8 = 2(5x-4) = 7x+3x-8 = ||10x-8 = 10x-8||
In this case this we have the same eqations on both sides, x = anything.
In other words, x have infinite values.