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Either "nothing" is used in its ordinary relative sense of designating something that is not to one's present purpose -- as purpose—as in "There's nothing in the refrigerator" or "There's nothing in this room" -- or—or, if it's not used in this ordinary relative sense but in an absolute sense, then either language is idling and "nothing" simply has no objective designation, or else it designates the realm of pure possibility, which is itself not possible but real. This realm, including the necessary as the least common denominator of all possibilities, has a certain structure: God-as-such correlated with world-as-such. This structure is not nothing in the sense that it is nothing objectively real, because it is an objective abstract aspect of any possible and thus every actual God-world.

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