Liked that quote. When you think about it, it is almost self-evident that existance is based on a void, or at least an unknowable something or other. Why is it self-evident? Because the word existence means to stand out. Out from WHAT? Who could possibly know. More like standing out from a formless void than any thing. Because all the \"things\" are by definition standing out, existing. Existence is based on a seemingly non-existing substratum or \"plus one.\" That is what it surely is \"standing\" on. There seems no other way for the mind to percieve it. Is this one of Kan't an a-priori reasons? Standing out implies a Lying in or Resting in. What is it that is way, way, way \"in\" there -- from which all existing things or beings stand out from? \u00a0It can only be the end of thought. Nothing at all.\u00a0 I was re-reading some earlier pages in this thread and came upon\u00a0this<\/a> Zizek quote from The Speculative Turn<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n \"The last great breakthrough was quantum physics, and it compels us to...drop the assertion of \u2018fully existing external reality\u2019 as the basic premise of materialism\u2014on the contrary, its premise is the \u2018non-All\u2019 of reality, its ontological incompleteness.... Materialism has nothing to do with the assertion of the inert density of matter; it is, on the contrary, a position which accepts the ultimate Void of reality\u2014the consequence of its central thesis on the primordial multiplicity is that there is no \u2018substantial reality\u2019, that the only \u2018substance\u2019 of the multiplicity is Void\" (406).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/div><\/div>\n <\/dd>\n