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Meanings of non-being in English
State of not existing.
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Usage of non-being in English
1
It is a state of being which is as it were non-being.
2
Now ignorance is a non-being, since it is a privation of knowledge.
3
Now nothing is opposed to the idea of being except non-being.
4
Being in its possibility is no more non-being than is reality.
5
The fairy world is an ephemeral place of non-being, High Lord.
6
And they are just rendered into non-being, what they do to stay alive.
7
Ultimately, only it could define its own state of non-being.
8
Again, evil, since it is a privation and a non-being, cannot differentiate any being.
9
But non-being cannot be a difference, according to the Philosopher (Metaph.
10
It is difficult indeed to distinguish between pure being and pure non-being as a category.
11
The softness of an uncertain voice awakened her from the withdrawal in a capsule of non-being.
12
He thus combined two characters, formless form, immortal and mortal, being and non-being, motion and rest.
13
But "non-being" does not require being as its subject.
14
If being and non-being are both necessary to the presence of either, neither shall claim priority or preference.
15
Some define existence as the expression of reality or being, and non-existence as non-being, imagining that death is annihilation.
16
Thus matter is to Aristotle a much more positive substratum than to Plato, who declares it to be pure non-being.
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Portuguese
Non-being through the time