Jump out of a plane at 10,000 feet.
Close your eyes and smile.
Think of your first childhood memory.
"We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born." Charles S. Peirce, "Logic of Events" (1898)
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