Expand Your Thinking

The title of this post is ambiguous. I meant it to be as several physicists, including some of the most prominent ones have been, not just ambiguous, but downright equivocating on the word “nothing.” As in the fallacy of equivocation. This post explains the informal logical fallacy of equivocation and gives the example of how some physicists commit the fallacy when trying to explain how the universe came from “nothing.” The Fallacy of Equivocation The fallacy of equivocation is using two different meanings or senses for the same word or phrase in the same argument. It is easy to define…