Theory Of Nothingness- And The Fourth Law Of Thought: The Principle Of The Exceptional Nature Of Nothingness

Andre Philippe Laisney
5 min readJun 9, 2021
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We believe that the universe came from nothingness. Nothingness is the state of being of nothing. The state of being of “nothing” is a thing. We are mystified because we believe that nothingness is not a thing and so we believe that it can have no state of being. We misunderstand. Although it sounds illogical to our un-updated modern logic, there is a thing that is nothing. Nothingness is the thing that is nothing, and has a nature.

If Nothingness were nothing then it would be mysterious that universes would emerge from “it”, but nothingness is not nothing. Nothingness is a “thing”. Nothingness is possibility. Nothingness is the source of every possible thing. Impossibility is a limit reserved for things, but not for Nothingness.

Put aside for a moment a “Theory of Everything”. Consider a “Theory of Nothingness”.

In early mathematics the “number” “zero”, which is “the number which is not a number” was initially very difficult for us to grasp. In modern logic “Nothingness” the “thing which is not a thing” remains misunderstood. “Nothingness” is a “thing” we can learn to understand. This may be the key to understanding such things as how mind and matter can appear from Nothingness, and how apparent opposites like…

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