Originally posted by Atlantis001
Whatever nothingness "is". "It" can´t be referred to using language, we will always end with paradoxes. All we say about "it" must be understood in a figurative sense. We must understand nothingness by itself not worrying too much about if it was defined precisely by language because it certainly wasn´t.The problem is that it is not just a language problem, but nothingness cannot be imagined as a concept too. "It" "is" the absence of the concepts that we are always associating to the words of language. Perhaps nothingness is just "something" to contemplate.
While I agree, i tend not to believe it is impossible to have a concept of nothingness, but I do believe it is beyond our scope. Perhaps in the future when knowledge and the way of thinking and understanding have evolved, we would be able to imagine and perhaps more vividly define ''nothingness''.