Now to Craighead's first claim, Hartshorne has responded directly that it is
contradictory to affirm the being of nonbeing or the possibility of no possibility; likewise, it is
contradictory to imply with phrases such as «There is nothing» or «There might have been nothing» the
spatiality or temporality of that with no location in space or time (CSPM 58, 245, 283; LP 149; WP 80; NTT 83f; DR 73; PS I: 25, 26; IDE 88 - 93).