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Does empty exist or non-exist?
If full exist, then does empty exist or non-exist?
@Cameron,
Why do you use emptiness as a true fact?
@Grimes,
Do you mean to say that 'Empty is free from existence' OR 'Empty does not exist within existence'?
16 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Empty can refer to a state of readiness to receive.
In that case it exists.
- namelessLv 78 years ago
Does empty exist or non-exist?
If full exist, then does empty exist or non-exist?
~~~ Empty in street vernacular, such as the cup is half full and half empty.
It is obviously completely full, half of water and the other half of air!
So, yes, there is 'full' and 'empty'.
Ultimately, there are neither. Both are simply imaginary terms to describe the hypothesis of what we see.
Is it 'full' of water? How close will the magnification get before you declare it actually empty?
The only difference is a matter of Perspective and thought.
Everything exists!
- 8 years ago
empty implies a container that has the potential to be full. so the container which is meant to hold the content exists. but does the nothingness exist that is (not) within this empty container? is nothing actually something because we are humans and we have the power to label non-existent things as existing? I don't think we are that powerful. does something that doesn't exist actually exist by virtue of the fact that we are talking about this "non-existent" non-thing thing? congratulations you have made my brain explode
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- 8 years ago
Emptiness is like darkness, which is simply the absence of light and does not actually refer to anything that exists. So, I don't think emptiness is actually a quality or substance. Emptiness is just a way to say "there's nothing here."
- Anonymous8 years ago
An empty water bottle is a bottle full of air. Take out the air and you have a vacuum. A bottle with a vacuum inside is full of vacuum energy, this you can't remove. So, there can be no such thing as an empty bottle. What we regard as an empty bottle is full of air, or vacuum energy.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Emptiness of self exists.
Buddha said 'The world is empty of Self.' Self ideology is non existent in nature.
- 8 years ago
Ah but empty WHAT? Empty space? Empty space is real. It is dimension. It contains energy. It definitely exists. If you think there is nothing between the earth & the moon ask yourself: So why aren't they touching then? They aren't touching because there IS something between them: space. Empty space is SOMETHING!
- ?Lv 78 years ago
The abstraction the "empty set" - the set that has no members, exists. There is such a thing as an "empty" glass if by "empty" we mean contains no fluid.
- Special EPhexLv 78 years ago
Emptiness is the absence of fullness, much like darkness is the absence of light, or coldness is the absence of heat. There are always varying degrees of the