Download or read book Could There Have Been Nothing? written by Geraldine Coggins and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could there have been nothing? is the first book-length study of metaphysical nihilism – the claim that there could have been no concrete objects. It critically analyses the debate around nihilism and related questions about the metaphysics of possible worlds, concrete objects and ontological dependence.