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I never asked if ice existed, just whether cold itself exists if it is merely absence of heat. As I said, cold is not limited to ice. Ice is not all that is cold. Cold is a situation that allows ice to exist. But nothing makes ice cold except for lack of heat. A fire is not hot because there's a lack of cold. It is combusting, burning, consuming, and creating light and heat. Movement creates heat, friction creates heat. What creates cold? The absence of heat.
Space is by definition, absence of anything. On our planet the space inside a box is not really space, it has air in it. A vacuum is space. Nothing. No thing.
We've called the nothingness - no gas, matter etc between planets "space" but it could quite easily be called "nothing" or "emptyness" and would mean the same thing.
But, by naming it, and conceptualising it, nothing becomes something yes? Or no?
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Ice is just an example of something that is cold. The question is, “dose cold exist”. Yes cold exists because ice exists. Just as anything that is cold exists. Something cold dose not need the absence of heat to be cold. A person’s body temperature is fairly warm, however a person can be extremely cold.
By naming something we do not create its existence. We merely name something that already existed.