ABSTRACT
There is the idea of ‘empty space’ as the possibility of other positions. The possibility of being somewhere else. (‘This might have been somewhere else’; the question whether this would mean anything if ‘there were only one thing existing’.)
If you imagine only one thing existing, presumably this is contingent. Perhaps there were more; perhaps there will be more. At any rate, it makes sense to ask whether there are more. We can ask: ‘Where were the things which have now been destroyed?’ (assuming something like absolute destruction). Otherwise, nothing definite is being said or denied.
