Just pointing out that the logical consequence of the statement "nothing cannot exist" is that empty space is impossible, the universe is therefore completely solid, and thus motion is impossible. Something of which Parmenides was well aware. :)
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Surely the existence of some things poses a question
> to us -- "as when
> you find a trout in the milk," said Thoreau (viz.,
> has someone been
> watering the milk?)
>
> But if we can ask meaningfully about the existence
> of large parts of the
> universe (the solar system, say, or the galaxies),
> does meaninglessness
> supervene only when we slip up and ask about all of
> it?
>
> "You still have the question: why does the universe
> bother to exist? If
> you like, you can define God to be the answer to
> that question."
> --Stephen Hawking (1994), Black Holes and Baby
> Universes, p. 159.
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