{"id":471,"date":"2016-06-24T12:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=471"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:39:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:39:48","slug":"appendix-z14-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX Z14: \u201cNothing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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APPENDIX Z14:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\u201cNothing\u201d<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It would be incorrect, of course, to imply or
\n infer\n <\/div>\n
that Summa maintains that NOTHING preceded all. <\/span><\/span>\n <\/div>\n
That position, respectfully<\/span>, would, by de\ue0c4nition, be a\n <\/div>\n
metaphysical \u2018dead end.\u2019<\/div>\n
The \u2018starting point\u2019 of the cosmos is not NOTHING.\n <\/div>\n
Rather<\/span>, Summa<\/span> proposes that \u2018Potential\/Possibility\u2019 was\/\n <\/div>\n
is eternal. And \u2018Potential\/Possibility\u2019 is clearly a
\n far more\n <\/div>\n
complex and a far richer concept than \u2018Nothing.\u2019\n <\/div>\n
While, one can posit that by de\ue0c4nition \u2018Potential\/\n <\/div>\n
Possibility\u2019 is eternal, one can also posit that by
\n de\ue0c4nition\n <\/div>\n
\u2018Nothing\u2019 is just that \u2013 nothing. And no entity or
\n agent or\n <\/div>\n
force can turn nothing into something<\/span><\/span><\/span>. By de\ue0c4nition.\n <\/div>\n
Now<\/span>,
\n \u2018Potential\/Possibility\u2019 may<\/span>, indeed have dimensions\/\n <\/div>\n
facets of which we are either unawar<\/span>e, or cannot fully\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/p>\n
grasp. \u2018Possibility\/Potential\u2019 in turn, may have had
\n the\n <\/div>\n
ability to traverse \u2013 or impel the traversing \u2013 from
\n the\n <\/div>\n
metaphysical to reality as we know it.<\/div>\n
\u2018Possibility\/Potential\u2019 may have had the power<\/span>, ultimately<\/span>,\n <\/div>\n
to divide \u20180\u2019* ( hypothesized core \u201czer<\/span>o-point\/integer\u201d )\n <\/div>\n
into positives and negatives, as discussed in the
\n text.\n <\/div>\n
And, herein, in my estimation, is most pr<\/span>obably the crux of\n <\/div>\n
the genesis of our little universe.<\/div>\n
*technical note: <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
maybe we should treat the Hebr<\/span>ew word ayin<\/span> as \u201c0\u201d\n <\/div>\n
\u201cCosmologists sometimes claim that the universe can
\n arise \u2018from\n <\/div>\n
nothing.\u2019 But this is loose language. Even if
\n shrunk to a point or a\n <\/div>\n
quantum state, our universe is latent with
\n particles and forces: it has far\n <\/div>\n
more content and structur<\/span>e
\n than what a philosopher calls \u2018nothing.\u2019\u201d\n <\/div>\n
(Martin Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat, p. 142)<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX Z14: \u201cNothing\u201d It would be incorrect, of course, to imply or infer that Summa maintains that NOTHING preceded all. That position, respectfully, would, by de\ue0c4nition, be a metaphysical \u2018dead end.\u2019 The \u2018starting point\u2019 of the cosmos is not NOTHING. Rather, Summa proposes that \u2018Potential\/Possibility\u2019 was\/ is eternal. And \u2018Potential\/Possibility\u2019 is clearly a far more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}