(Feb 8, 2017 05:56 PM)Yazata Wrote: (Feb 5, 2017 06:12 PM)Ostronomos Wrote: Non-existence exists
Limited and relative kinds of non-existence certainly exist. Otherwise holes and absences of particular things would be impossible. There are no hundred dollar bills in my wallet. Donuts have holes in them.
The phrase 'non-existence doesn't exist' is more plausible when we are talking about total non-existence, the absence of anything and everything. It does seem self-contradictory to think of total non-existence as a void, as a peculiarly dark and empty kind of existence.
Quote:If non-existence did not exist then nothing could possibly exist.
Why?
For the reason that negations must exist in order for an instantiation to exist. The opposites must coincide in order to make possible distinction of being. Being is what anything real is, as it is. So opposition distinguishes being from nothing. If there were nothing but nothing, nothing could possibly be. If there were nothing but something, in other words, non-distinction, nothing would be that something, due to non-distinction of being.