What is "nihilo"

Usage examples of "nihilo".

Hac spe lapsus Indutiomarus nihilo minus copias cogere, exercere, a finitimis equos parare, exules damnatosque tota Gallia magnis praemiis ad se allicere coepit.

Domine sancte, Pater omnipotens, aeterne Deus, qui omnia ex nihilo creasti.

Sapientia et magnitude animi, qua omnes res humanae tenues et pro nihilo putantur, et in cogitando vis quaedam ingenii, et ipsa eloquentia admirationis habet non minus, jucunditatis minus.

So this has to be the sequence: First the not-self not-you ideationless ex nihilo act that abolishes the replay determinism, the tape, and then (and only then) are you free to perform a new act.

Such a mind could act as cause to its own effect, affecting itself as if from outside like a feedback circuit, and, upon having successfully affected itself, the self as cause would eliminate itself as if it had never existed, which again is the ex nihilo or bootstrap paradox of time travel.

So it's an up-by-his-bootstrap situation, a self-causing situationthen truly it is ex nihilo (no wonder there was no ideation!

It may be remarked here that we do not find the conception of creation ex nihilo in any of the ancient myths of Creation.

Either Ume's mind excites the emulsion atoms or air atoms to a point where photons are emitted, or else she creates the photons ex nihilo out of another aspect of the Greater Reality, as proponents of the new Universal Field Theory would say.

The door Bone pondered in flickering light was a huge brass panel proclaiming Ex Nihilo in the style of a bookplate.

The crest on his letter paper announced a promising motto: Ex nihilo omnia.