# Everything and Nothing

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- Book: [Everything and Nothing](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-priest/everything-and-nothing) ([Everything and Nothing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-priest/everything-and-nothing.md))
- Authors: [Graham Priest](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-priest)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN: 978-15-0953-747-1
- Pages: 140
- Published: 2022-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Is it possible for reality as a whole to be part of itself? Can the world appear within itself without thereby undermining the consistency of our thought and knowledge-claims concerning more local matters of fact? This is a question on which Markus Gabriel and Graham Priest disagree. Gabriel argues that the world cannot exist precisely because it is understood to be an absolutely totality. Priest responds by developing a special form of mereology according to which reality is a single all-encompassing whole, everything, which counts itself among its denizens. Their disagreement results in a debate about everything and nothing: Gabriel argues that we experience nothingness once we overcome our urge to contain reality in an all-encompassing thought, whereas Priest develops an account of nothing according to which it is the ground of absolutely everything. A debate about everything and nothing, but also a reflection on the very possibility of metaphysics.