Meanwhile:
Previously mentioned 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel who
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overturned the poll results and ordered Americans to change their minds about nothingness
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is reconsidering it's decision based on the appeal files by the philosophers.
The Logician's Union, Local #97, from FirstLastAndMiddlesex NC, has also filed an appeal to the Court's decision. Nothing, they say,
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is not a thing, nor is it the name of anything, being merely a short way of saying of anything that it is not something else. "Nothing" means "not-anything"; appearances to the contrary are due merely to the error of supposing that a grammatical subject must necessarily be a name.
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Asked, however, to prove that nothing is not the name of anything, they fall back on the claim that nothing is the name of anything (since according to them there are no names anyway).
Those who can make nothing of such an argument are welcome to the attempt.
Previously mentioned 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is also awaiting further comments from FCC Chairman Powell.