Answers to this riddle should be sought in several planes at once. First, this may be a joke question. Then the answer is simple.
You'll have to work a little harder figuring out what meanings the word "nothing" has.
The most difficult answers will be formulated by calling on the help of philosophy and physics.
Don't make it hard
Without what nothing ever happens? The simplest answer is also the shortest one and sounds like this: “Without “neither”. If you do a morphemic analysis of the word "nothing", then "neither" in it will be a prefix. But without it, you get a different set of letters with a different meaning.
Many other riddles are based on this feature of the language. Here are some examples:
Put everything aside for a minute
And tell me, why is the duck swimming? (Answer: by water).
And why does the old hunter have a gun? (Answer: over the shoulder).
Why do we rarely go, but we go all the time? (Answer: stairs).
Why, tell me, running arounddoggy? (Answer: on the ground).
I ask for an answer to each question.
The important thing here is that the preposition in the case forms “for what” and “for what” merges with the word when pronounced. Thus, the question becomes tricky. The guesser is forced to look for a complex reason instead of giving a simple answer.
When there is nothing to appreciate
For connoisseurs of the Russian language, this moment will be interesting in connection with the riddle “without which nothing can ever happen.”
The bottom line here again is the same sounding of words in different parts of speech. So, if in this statement we consider “nothing” as an adverb, then it expresses an assessment (moderately positive). Its synonyms are as follows:
- tolerant;
- passable;
- more or less;
- you can live;
- pretty good.
In this case, how to answer the question "without which there is never anything"? Apparently, without the subject of evaluation, which can be designated by the adverb in question. That is, for example, without life or without sensation. There are many more possible answers.
No answer to be found without consent
The word "nothing" takes on another meaning when it is a particle. It either designates something as absolutely unimportant, or expresses:
- acceptance;
- assumption;
- consent.
"Okay", "let" - these are the words that can replace this particle. For example: I lost money. Nothing, it will come with time!
In this case, the question "without which there is never anything" can be answered,naming any of the specified values.
The Way of Philosophy
And finally, the case when they ask, meaning the genitive singular form of the pronoun "nothing".
If you mean the figurative meaning of the word, when they call someone or something that does not represent a meaning, it is easy to answer the riddle “without which nothing can ever happen”
Something like this: “without any insignificant subject or object.”
But if “nothing” is used as a category from the field of philosophy, then a huge field for exercises opens up for lovers of wisdom.
Here it denies both essence and being. And this “nothing” exists only in the language, since it does not exist anywhere else. But a person is able to relate to any manifestation of existence from a negative position. That is why the answer to the question “without which there is never anything” from a philosophical point of view will sound: “without a person.”
I have also heard when, for example, the following options are offered as a guess:
- no time;
- no title.
In all of them, too, there is a grain of truth. Similar questions make the convolutions stir in search of the truth, which, it turns out, may not be alone. And this in itself is useful.
