The idea of everything can be associated with the absolute.
The term everything comes from the Latin totus and refers to something that is taken or understood entirely . For example: if in a room there are eight men and no women, it can be said that all the attendees are men .
In a given framework , the notion of everything is absolute (that is, it has no gradations or middle terms). If we read information that states that all the starting players of a soccer team received bribes, the data assumes that all eleven members were bribed. It is not possible to consider that said bribe has reached two, five or ten players, since any amount other than eleven will not be “the entire team” .
Everything as a generalization
When the idea of everything is used to generalize, errors are made. A phrase like “All politicians are corrupt” assumes that there are no honest politicians, which is false. However, in everyday language, such expressions are common.
The term is also used to overweight some circumstance or quality : “Everything is a problem at this school,” “Everything in this city is interesting and worth watching,” “The gold medal-winning athlete is all muscle.” .
Continuing with the use of the term on a sentimental level , saying that someone is "all we have" or that being with that person is "all we long for" cannot be one hundred percent true; at least, not from a strictly analytical point of view. But the intention of these phrases is not accuracy, but rather they seek to emphasize the feelings of one person towards another, showing how invaluable their presence, their company, is for them.
It can be said that the concept of everything refers to each of the particles that make up the universe.
The limits of the concept
It is impossible for human beings to fully understand the concept of everything when it exceeds the limits of known people and objects and is applied to the totality of particles that make up the universe. In the same way, imagining nothingness is a task as arduous as it is absurd: we cannot think in the total absence of matter, and nothingness has little to do with turning the mind into black or white.
What are the limits of the universe? Does it have limits? If so, could it be found in another space? What if there was nothing on the other side? To understand everything it is absolutely necessary to understand nothing; When the first ends, the second begins, and the level of complexity of the questions increases considerably, becoming impossible to solve.
Our planet's spherical shape is likely partly responsible for our difficulty understanding boundaries. If we begin to travel the Earth following one of the infinite rings that cross it, we will never come across a wall that represents the end of existence, since there will always be land or water in front of us, and sooner or later we will return to the starting point .
EVERYTHING in computing
Written in the same way, usually with all letters capitalized ("ALL"), it is the union of two English words and is often used in the field of computer programming to list pending tasks.
Within the various code documents that make up a program, developers have the option of making annotations that the computer will completely ignore; It is used, for example, to detail the operation of a particular section, or to point out aspects that must be improved, finalized or eliminated. In this case, "TODO" is used regardless of the programmer's language ("TODO: improve resource loading").
The notion in philosophy
Everything, finally, is a philosophical concept that is linked to the category of totality . This involves encompassing the world as a great unit.
Marxist thinkers maintain that capitalism , with the division of labor and class struggle, leads to alienation , which causes people to consider the world in terms of various unrelated phenomena.