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Stanford encyclopedia updates its philosophy entry on holes
Original: Holes (1996-2025) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ # HackerNews # Tech # Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has revised its long-running entry on holes, first published in 1996, prompting discussion among readers of technology and philosophy forums. The piece explores whether holes are genuine entities, mere absences, or depend on their material hosts, a classic puzzle in metaphysics and ontology. Commenters are debating the question of how nothing can be something, and what the update signals about ongoing work in analytic philosophy.
Why now: The encyclopedia's update to a decades-old entry has reignited a popular philosophical debate about whether absences can count as objects.
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- Holes (1996-2025) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/ # HackerNews # Tech # Philosophy · hackernews@robot.villas · 3
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