The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Nothing"
equal to everything that cannot be observed
that whole philosophical inquiry runs into the stumbling block of the fact that words are merely a way to convey ideas and images and that they do a p*ss poor job of it. First off, how can you be sure if nothing means the same from person to person if it is impossible for you to truly understand it from a different perspective.
The parameters exist out of the birth of the human mind's instinctual need to rationalize, to quantify, and to give meaning to things that have none. Which further gives rise to humanity need to find meaning in its own puny existance. To give infinite meaning to something that has none.
So to make a generalization about something you cannot hope to completely understand and quantify, other beings, is silly.
Human beings are like circles that can only meet at one point.
If nothing is as you say, nothing, then it cannot give noise to the vision of an individual's twisted "truth". What more, why do you think there needs to be a whole truth. A beginning of what? What's existance?
It would seem you are implying in the end that the answer to the age old question of, "if a tree falls and no one is around to hear it. Wwill it make a noise?" Is 'no'.
And why say "temporal being"? Are you saying "humanity" only in such a way as to convey the air of an 'expert'?