No, Sebastian. You cannot mix up reality and compare it to a tool. That is false thinking. You have to use your brain properly, which means you have to identify your thoughts properly.
It turns out that there is a tremendous amount of different systems we are using with our words. It is completely improper to declare all words in the dictionary as all of one and the same kind. And that is what you are doing in this article. You are making all words have the same essential foundation.
That's wagging the dog. Instead, one has to recognize each and every dog and how each dog is wagging its own tail.
Let me show how the dictionary even includes words that aren't.
The word 'Nothing' is found in the dictionary, declared a proper English word. And that is true.
Yet the word indicates how something is not there. So, we even have words to declare the absence of something. Read your article; the absence is not in there.
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I feel I need to say the following to make it all clear to you:
In the old days, people thought that the first ten numbers were 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.
One can read this from smallest to largest or from largest to smallest, with 1 and 10 swapping places for being smallest and largest.
Then, folks realized that there is also 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 as the first ten numbers. Yet instead of making a choice which version fit reality, folks started to use both systems, willy-nilly, at their own pleasing. Now, that is a real mistake, not making any distinctions what the footing is that our numbers (or words) are based on. That is like walking on top of a swamp.
Some folks even said that the first ten numbers were 0 to 10, obviously that is 11 numbers and clearly indicating that for them 0 was included but not really a number.
The baby is then drained unseen together with the bathwater.
Using just 0 to 9, and applying the option to read it either as from smallest to largest or from largest to smallest the secret becomes visible.
When not 1, but 0 is seen as the largest of them all (while not denying the existence of an actual something with 1, 2, 3, etc), one can see that the top level is empty.
And that is the level you are using to ask us your question.
So, that is why you need to retool your thoughts because of that false thinking. You are denying that the 0 level is the largest level, while you are placing your two options at that level as if that were possible. You did not leave the level empty.
It appears you had to sit in the empty chair of God, and you should not have done that. It should have remained empty.
Other than that, you are a good writer. I like your style; I like the subject matters you are interested in. But your feet are not where I put my feet. My brain is a (complex) tool, and I use it as such. I do not make my brain more than what it is.
