Tania asked:

I am asking this question in regard to the complex idea of nothingness. If I have nothing, do I still
have something? What is nothingness?

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Nobody is my friend. And I saw nobody in the street. Does this mean that I saw my friend in the
street? Of course it doesn't.

We use the word 'nothing', on the surface, in the same way we use words for objects. (I might saw
that I have money in my pocket, or that I have nothing in my pocket.) And this is the start of the
confusion. But rather than being the name of a particularly 'complex' something, it means the
absence of something. To say that there is nothing in my pocket is to say that I don't have any objects
in my pocket. To say that I have nothing is to say that there exist no objects which it would be true to
say that I have.

Will Greenwood