This text explores the philosophical relationship between the process of quantification and the concept of non-being or the void. For counting to be possible, there must be a plurality of entities, which requires that these entities be distinctly separated or separable from one another. The author draws on ancient atomism, where the void (non-being) acts as the essential medium that keeps atoms apart. While the atomists argued that the void is real—and thus 'something'—it possesses a different ontological status compared to the atoms themselves. This principle is demonstrated using the analogy of a pile of bricks: the gaps between the bricks represent spaces of 'nothing,' yet they are real and allow for individual bricks to be distinguished. The text argues that the definition of beings and their quantifiability depends on the presence of non-being, which serves as a necessary constitutive factor for structure and order in the world.