The problem with nothing is that when we say, “There is nothing,” we are speaking nonsense because the verb is is a form of the verb to be, and the one thing that nothingness lacks is “be-ness.” So, we can’t speak of nothingness, and we can’t say, “There is nothing” or “There was nothing,” because to say that there is such a thing as nothing would be to attribute something to it, when nothing is not.
