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Suki Finn on the Metaphysics of Nothing

Philosophy Bites

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Is There a Philosophical Way Out of This Controversy?

Is there a philosophical way out of this contradiction? Do we just have to accept they're both something and nothing? There are indeed philosophers who will embrace contradictions that result from discussing entities or non entities like nothingness. A dialetheist is some one who holds that some contradictions can be true, all the time. But dioletheism is not committed to the truth of every single contradiction.

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