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What is the meaning of "Nothing is unimportant" ?
Today, I have an argue with friend about meaning of this sentence "Nothing is unimportant" I think this means everything is important. but my friend sad this means there are no important things. What is the meaning of "Nothing is unimportant" ?
2015年12月3日 15:12
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It means everything is important. In this case it follows the plain logic of the words.
"You left out a comma on line 131."
"That comma isn't important."
"Nothing is unimportant. Why, a missing comma in a contract once cost Roger Communications a million dollars. A missing comma once destroyed a NASA rocket."
Your friend is simply wrong.
However, it is "a stretch," but it is also _possible_ to read the phrase as meaning that nothingness, itself, can be important. It's almost a joke or a pun or a play on words, but it's possible.
"The invention of a symbol meaning 'zero' revolutionized mathematics and arithmetic. A zero may mean "nothing," but sometimes 'nothing' is important."
2015年12月3日
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Yes, "nothing is unimportant" means everything is important.
2015年12月3日
It can either mean "Everything is important" or "The fact that there is nothing is unimportant."
2015年12月3日
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