Does Nothing Exist?

[TragicMonkey]

Ooh ooh, let me try.

I discard the first not, as it is colloquially saying the same thing as "is it true."

I take nothing in the sense of "no thing."

Not non-existant = existant...

De-obfuscated - "Do no things exist."

And this is false by my own axiom of personal existance. False (for my interpretation).

Well done...only I can see you're not from Tennessee. I noticed a very strange linguistic peculiarity when I lived there. A common form of a question would be "Did you not do your homework?" The answer, if you did do your homework, would logically be "No." But the questioner expects you to answer "Yes" if you did your homework--they're interpreting your answer as if they had asked you "Did you do your homework?" and completely ignoring the "not" they put in there! It drove me nuts, and I got a reputation for verbosity because I'd reply "I did my homework" instead of "answering a simple yes/no question"!

I lived in several Southern states, but Tennessee's the only one where I encountered that.

It might explain Al Gore a bit.

 

[Filip Sandor]

This is a question I've just been pondering for a while, and wanted to see what others thought;

Does nothing (noun, as zero) exist? (not to be read as, "Doesn't anything exist?")
If it does exist, isn't it contradicting it's own definition, what it represents?
If it doesn't exist, how is the concept available to our understanding?

edited for clarification

Obviously nothing does not exist, since there is something.

Unlike pink Unicorns or Frodo however, the concept of "nothingness" is available to our understanding through normal observation of our surroundings, which indeed makes it a very curious thought and questionable of what it might ultimately represent... if it represents anything at all (major pun intended).

 

[TragicMonkey]

"Nothing" is just a concept, like "honest politician". We know what the concept is, but there are no real-world instances of it. We can only grasp it by imagining the opposite of reality.