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- Title
Nothing: A User's Manual.
- Authors
Harris, Paul
- Abstract
The author reflects on the oscillation between the physical sense and metaphysical sense of nothing. It is claimed that the metaphysical approach to natural world is exemplified in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. The difference of corporeal bodies from incorporeal entities are provided. Vacuum and ether are the two most prominent physical concepts that best represented nothing as a corporeal body.
- Subjects
NOTHING (Philosophy); METAPHYSICS; MOBY-Dick; or, The Whale (Book); MELVILLE, Herman, 1819-1891; VACUUM; ETHER (Anesthetic)
- Publication
Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism, 2006, Vol 35, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0049-2426
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/sub.2006.0035