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  • The issue is with the word "nothing": "something" is because it is the subject in predication: we predicate some attribute/property of it. We "speak" of a subject. What about "nothing": what are the properties we attribute to it? Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 16:34
  • Jean-Paul Sartre has written at length that in the world Negation appeared through existence of consciousness, that is, thinking is otherwise impossible. Also Alain Badiou has argued that "many things" is the negation of "nothing" or "non being". Reading and pondering all that just these two have to say on this problem is not a small task . Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 17:09
  • Then how will you explain your dissapointment when you wanted to pay for one more item in the store and just have opened your wallet, - and you find nothing (no money) in it? Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 23:55
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    What does formulating the question have to do with actual ontology? The question is not about what actually exists or existed, but why it is not otherwise given that the otherwise is logically possible. We can formulate questions about possibilities completely regardless of what the basis of reality happens to be. Commented Dec 31, 2020 at 0:05
  • See also philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/8251/28067 Commented Jan 2, 2021 at 9:49