Nothing must have no properties, so the concept of nothing is self-defeating for existence.

Evidence

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? | Issue 125 (Philosophy Now)

corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
XREF: connects to: Human knowledge fails to answer life’s fundamental questions. — Leo Tolstoy, A Confession, 64; Substance theory fails because removing all properties leaves nothing behind — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 859; Nothingness is a perpetual self-referential break within being, not a located entity. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 336 (+1 more)

Substance theory fails because removing all properties leaves nothing behind (similarity 0.85)
Nothingness is a perpetual self-referential break within being, not a located entity. (similarity 0.83)
Nothingness is logically subsequent to being and always supposes a specified being (similarity 0.82)
Nothingness is an act of being putting itself into question, unique to consciousness. (similarity 0.80)
Nothingness is expelled from being yet gives the world its outlines (similarity 0.80)
Nothingness is logically subsequent to being, not its opposite. (similarity 0.79)
Human reality is constituted as the unique foundation of nothingness within being. (similarity 0.79)
Nothingness grounds negation by being itself a negation, not an empty void (similarity 0.79)
Being is logically prior to nothingness, which has only borrowed existence. (similarity 0.79)
Lack is not accidental to human reality but constitutes its original mode of being. (similarity 0.78)