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Is Zero An Epistemological Obstacle by Montreal Math Tutoring, Merlin Dergham
Is Zero An Epistemological Obstacle by Montreal Math Tutoring, Merlin Dergham
It is the human creative consciousness of existence that brings the terms as “emptiness”,
“hollowness”, “nothingness”, or “a big zero” to describe the ultimate, un-manifest reality
of life. This consciousness is not but a true manifestation of the un-manifest absolute
truth that takes sometimes a physical body to approach humans in the way they look like.
Zero to Void is as Body to Soul. The soul dwells in the body and lives within as similar to
the "Virtual World” and “Greatness” that need a physical representation to live within.
As human body is a very complicated entity so is the zero because both of them are not
but a symbol of a very fine self-aware ethereal substance.
So the zero represents the non-presence of the numbers 1,2., 9 and at the same time it
produces the whole progression endless of the whole. It is at the origin of the number: as
like for the geometry where the point generates the straight line so is the zero which is a
basis of all numbers.
Being aware of such epistemological obstacles, math educators and teachers have to be
aware to distinguish zero from the other natural numbers. It will be surely necessary to
emphasize every time the peculiarity of the zero, not inserting it only in limit cases, but in
the theory (see null angle, null solution,..)