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> Pure nothingness has no potential for creation

In mathematics, at least, this is not true. For example, a set consisting of the empty set is not empty.




You're confusing formalism with metaphysics.

Emptiness isn't nothingness. Emptiness presupposes something that is empty of something expected to fill it, the absence of something not the total absence of anything. Absolute nothingness isn't empty because there's nothing that can be empty. Nothingness is not a something, but people here seem to be reifying the notion.


Because you can't get rid of the potential to reify.


"Pure nothingness" would be the empty set, not a set with something in it.


Yes, that's their point. Pure nothingness, the empty set, has the potential to create the set containing the empty set, and then the set containing that, sets containing combinations, etc etc.


How does the empty set "create" the set containing the empty set?


By being the contents that make that set exist.




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