Nothing
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The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing (c.1887) by Odilon Redon, a phrase from the Pensées (1669) by Blaise Pascal
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
Nothing is commonly understood as the lack or absence of anything at all. Colloquially, the term is often used to indicate the lack of anything relevant or significant, or to describe a particularly unimpressive thing, event, or object.
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See also
- 4′33″
- Blank
- Empty set
- Existentialism
- Negative theology
- Nihilism
- No
- Nobody
- NOP
- Nowhere
- Null
- Null graph
- Shunyata
- Vacuous truth
- Vacuum
- Void
- Zero
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Selected bibliography
- L'Être et le néant (Being and Nothingness), 1943
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