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Answer by randomindividual for What's the least amount of things that can...

The difference is made by itself and nothingness. Difference is just lacking a property which one has, or having a property which one lacks. The distinction is quite simple: nothingness has no...

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Answer by Richard Kirk for What's the least amount of things that can...

People have proposed universes consisting of a single particle that goes between the beginning and end of the universe and back to the beginning again, only this time taking a different path so it...

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Answer by Marco Ocram for What's the least amount of things that can possibly...

You are conflating the idea of existence with the idea of knowing that something exists. Suppose there was a Universe which contained nothing but three irreducible blobs and a person who is able to see...

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Answer by Jo Wehler for What's the least amount of things that can possibly...

Imagine empty spacetime and in addition either a single electron or a single photon. The elementary particle has properties which empty spacetime does not have: Energy, momentum, the electron has in...

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What's the least amount of things that can possibly exist?

Suppose there only ever existed one indecomposable, irreducible object.What could distinguish it from nothingness? From not existing, as there is nothing besides it that could deduce its...

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Answer by Blackness for What's the least amount of things that can possibly...

The relation of pure being to pure nothing, is that they are both negations of each other.In a more Hegelian sense, they are both implying and negating each other. A pure nothing can only be a nothing...

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What could distinguish it from nothingness? From not existing, asthere is nothing besides it that could deduce its information?What you may have said there is that, if there is one thing, it is...

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