Everything
The term everything belongs to the group of words of indefinite pronouns and thus describes an existing but indefinable number of things. It is found in everyday language as the opposite of nothing . It has the largest conceivable scope and at the same time the least definition of content compared to other terms.
In everyday language today everything is usually used in the sense of the greatest possible number. The Everything can be understood that all things that exist from something are called and found as a word element in some compound words (all-purpose glue, omnivorous, all-rounder) . The noun all comes from “everything”, since this should extend to infinity and thus contain everything that exists.
etymology
Everything goes back to everything , which in turn is based on the Indo-European root al- (grow). In the past, everything also existed as an adverbial accusative, meaning always , but often shortened to monosyllabic alls . This alls or as also served to create scolding and curses well into the 21st century.
Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote about Germany in 1841 , Germany about everything, about everything in the world.
Philosophy, science and religion
In philosophy, logic, and mathematics there is the universal proposition that says something about all specimens of a class of things.
In the empirical sciences, the aim is to arrive at statements by induction based on experience, ie based on a finite number of observations, which refer not only to the observed but to all cases in a particular area. The generalization of a finite number of observations into generally valid statements leads to presumed laws which, however, can prove to be false or only valid to a limited extent through further observations ( falsification ). Scientific statements are required to be falsifiable ; the statements must in principle allow their falsification (see philosophy of science ).
The oneness (read: All-Unit) - or unity of all - means a central concept in pantheistic religions, after which the unity of the world consists in God and God rather than standing outside or above the world but as the world is realizing is thought.
Everything about everything
The expression all about all causes particular difficulties in the sense that every possible combination of all things present is to be described. For logical reasons, an encyclopedia that contains everything about everything cannot exist, since it would also have to contain, for example, all current and future events, such as the fact that you are currently reading this text.
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Individual evidence
- ^ The dictionary of origin (= Der Duden in twelve volumes . Volume 7 ). Reprint of the 2nd edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim 1997 ( p. 28 ). See also Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 7th edition. Trübner, Strasbourg 1910 ( p. 11 ).