Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Robert Kuhn’s Nine Levels of Nothing

If you’ve participated in many discussions about science or religion in which the word “nothing” plays a central role, you’ve probably noticed that “nothing” has different meanings for different people. Robert Lawrence Kuhn has put together a thought-provoking taxonomy of nine levels of nothing, which I think could be very useful for clarifying which “nothing” Robert Kuhn’s Nine Levels of Nothing