Meaning of nonent | Babel Free

Definitions

That which does not exist.

Examples

“[Xenophanes] only accepts as truth that the ent (or existent) is, while the nonent (or non-existing) is not, the ent being "perfect on every side, like the mass of a rounded sphere, equidistant from the centre at every point," continuous.”

“It would seem then that the whole subject of predication was to Zeno a mystery, and that it was upon the theory of the impossibility of predication that he rested his denial of the nonent.”

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