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In Buddhism the concept of inherent existence plays a very important role:
an object is "empty" is synonymous with saying that it is dependently originated.
So I was looking for non-empty things. Abstracts things, like mathematical proofs for example. But I found that they maybe boiled down to mathematical axioms, premises so evident as to be accepted as true without controversy.
So, are axioms non-empty?
The fact that you can't apply concept of emptiness to the object doesn't make object non-empty. It could be just irrelevant to the concept.
This is weird treatment of concept of emptiness either. Emptiness (in the most general definition) is the absence of (usually false) knowledge in the true knowledge. And in particular, absence of atman in the dharmas (skandhas, etc).
One of justifications of some dharmas being empty is that they are dependently originated. But some other dharmas are still empty without being dependently originated, like nirodha or tathata.
So one supposedly non-empty thing is atman, but it doesn't exists, as it's false concept.
