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  • Nothingness meme: nothingness lifts Eastern philosophers like a happy child, then beats up Western philosophers

    Nothingness Meme: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

    By Markus Uehleke

    In the nothingness meme, the void cuddles Eastern philosophers and beats up Western ones. Leibniz asked why there is something rather than nothing and answered with God, Heidegger found the nothing in anxiety, and Carnap called it nonsense. And is Buddhist emptiness, sunyata, a polite word for nihilism?