How come we define nothing, if nothing isn't supposed to be anything at all?

How come we define nothing, if nothing isn't supposed to be anything at all?
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It’s a concept. The human mind holds information conceptually which means it is an abstraction, which means it does not have to refer to a specific object in reality, but it certainly refers to domething that is real.
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