@zt09,
zt09 wrote:
Quote:Nothing is not zero:
Nothing multiplied by zero equals a nonzero number.
Zero multiplied by zero does not equal a nonzero number.
Strictly saying, yes, even zero can have several meanings in some cases. In my previous example
zero means rather
nothing that can be everything then
nothing that is the absence of anything. So I think using zero instead of Nothing is not a big mistake in this particular case.
So now a small mistake is no longer a mistake? Don't you get embarrassed by such a high-level standard of rigor?
Your example was that, if A + B = 0 with A (hence B) <> 0, then zero as "nothing" is the same as "something." This is wrong
twice:
1) It is
mathematically wrong, since the result of the expression, zero, equals the expression itself, rather than any of its parts---in your example, A + B is just another form of zero, hence identical to it (rather than something different, which is what your argument implies).
2) It is
philosophically wrong, since A + B = 0 is just a mathematical expression, where zero is just an ordinary number, hence different from nothing.
The only reason why zero is the same as nothing is because nothing is everything, which is what I am showing you from the beginning. But in this case not only zero is the same as nothing, but also anything else, including any other number. And it is not because of any property of zero that this happens, but rather because of nothing itself.
