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2016:program:kristina_sekrst [2016/06/28 20:19]
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 ====== Nothingness ====== ====== Nothingness ======
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-**Kristina Šekrst** ​ 
  
 +**Kristina Šekrst** ​
 +\\ //Centre for Croatian Studies//, University of Zagreb
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 Why is there something rather than nothing? seems like the most fundamental philosophical and physical question. Since proving that there is only nothing would be contradictory since we would be the ones observing it, the problem of explaining why there is not nothing remains, not only as a (meta)physical,​ but as a mathematical and a computational issue. Absence has been used in logic not only as a negation or as a certain modal concept of an empty world, but as an existential issue as well, where several non-classical logics have tried to raise and solve this issue. Along with the notion of nothing in mathematics and philosophy, the notion of infinity as its conceptual counterpart raised lots of issues as well, which can be seen in cosmological models in which the universe is an endless cycle of universes in collision with other ones, where time and space seem to be infinite. Why is there something rather than nothing? seems like the most fundamental philosophical and physical question. Since proving that there is only nothing would be contradictory since we would be the ones observing it, the problem of explaining why there is not nothing remains, not only as a (meta)physical,​ but as a mathematical and a computational issue. Absence has been used in logic not only as a negation or as a certain modal concept of an empty world, but as an existential issue as well, where several non-classical logics have tried to raise and solve this issue. Along with the notion of nothing in mathematics and philosophy, the notion of infinity as its conceptual counterpart raised lots of issues as well, which can be seen in cosmological models in which the universe is an endless cycle of universes in collision with other ones, where time and space seem to be infinite.