NOTHINGNESS: AN EXCURSUS INTO TRADITIONAL METAPHYSICS

Abstract

'Nothing' and indeed 'nothingness,' are concepts that have earlier discursive in traditional metaphysics. This paper appraises the advancement of the concept and sets to understand the foundations for the various conceptions of 'nothing,' in traditional metaphysics. The paper employs the analytic method of research to analyze the emergent themes on nothing in traditional metaphysics.It discovers that there are different themes that emerged in discussions on nothingness in traditional metaphysics. From this discovery, it makes its central claim that 'nothing'assumed several themes in traditional metaphysics such as: Void and cosmology, logical-entity and nonbeing, and privation and non-material for creation. The paper asserts that these ideologies are still useful today, with the merelogists and nano-scientific discoveries on entities and imperceptible units out of what previously was considered nonbeing or nothing.