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is nothing something?
by definition, no; nothing is the absence of any something. This is not to say that it is irrelevent, indeed, without the concept of nothingness, we cannot make sense of the concept of something. Without a conception of absence, we cannot make distinctions between things; everything would be seen as one thing. When we distinguish between two different things, it is because we recognise the nothingness that separates those two things; here is one thing, here is another, they are different because there is an absence of something between them, they are different because there is nothing between them.
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