This leads to the metaphysical consideration of the "Being" and "Non-Being":

While it may not appear so, the decision to attempt to separate from the Source of all life is the decision for Non-Being (or death), which is impossible.

Brassier then defends a radically anti-correlationist philosophy proposing that Thought is conjoined not with Being, but with Non-Being.

Towards Non-Being: the Semantics and Metaphysics of Intentionality, Oxford University Press, 2005.

RigVeda quotes "If in the beginning there was neither Being nor Non-Being, neither air nor sky, what was there?"

In 1913, he collected his loose philosophical essays, or "fantasies", in the volume Triumful neființei ("The Triumph of Non-Being").

Para-Nirvana: Absolute Non-Being, which is equivalent to absolute Being or "Be-ness", the state reached by the human Monad at the end of the great cycle.

The alternative Kabbalistic terms Ayin and Yesh ("Non-Being and Being") are more commonly used in wider Hasidic mysticism.

His books include “In Contradiction,” “Beyond the Limits of Thought,” “Towards Non-Being,” and “Introduction to Non-Classical Logic.”

Whereas Eris/Discordia is the Goddess of Disorder and Being, Aneris/Harmonia is the Goddess of Order and Non-Being.

Even the attribute of being, in any sense in which we understand that word, cannot be applied to Ultimate Reality; and so, mysteriously, it is said that the One Being to us is Non-Being.

Journey of the Frontier of Non-Being: the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni, translated from the Italian by Ned Condini, in "Chelsea" (New Jork), nn.

A collection of some strips was published in 1978 as Non-Being and Somethingness: Selections from the Comic Strip Inside Woody Allen (ISBN 0-394-73590-0) and featured an introduction by Buckminster Fuller.

She is the Goddess of Disorder and Being, whereas her sister Aneris (called the equivalent of Harmonia by the Mythics of Harmonia) is the goddess of Order and Non-Being.

Hasidism had extended the significance of Ayin and Yesh beyond its Heavenly abstract Kabbalistic meaning, to describe how this physical realm is alternatively Being or Non-Being, as perceived by Creation, in its nullification in the Panentheistic Divine All.

Being becomes emphasized, and, as Quality, is Reality; Nothing, or Non-Being, is concealed in Being's background serving only delimit it as a specific Quality distinct from others, and, in so doing, is Negation in General, i.e., Quality in the form of a deficiency.

While Hasidic thought universally retains the Kabbalistic meaning of Ayin (Non-Being) to refer to the inaccessible grasp of the Infinite Divine from the Creation's perspective, and Yesh (Being) to refer to Creation's perception of its own existence, this ascription only reflects the Lower Knowledge view.

He waited to see if Nonbeing would put in an appearance.

The narrative is at once naturalistic and implausible in every fiber of its nonbeing.

The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the nonbeing from which he had just come.

He especially attacked the Buddhist belief that the foundation and origin of the world was pure nonbeing.

He kept his gaze fixed on the deep Void, hoping to catch a glimpse of Nonbeing.

Nonbeing is called the beginning of heaven and earth; being is called the mother of all things.

Therefore being is for benefit, Nonbeing is for usefulness.

Their self-being is of God, their nonbeing is of nothing.

He describes his poetry as a mimesis of the streaming of Being through Nonbeing.

No creature can imagine nonbeing, especially its own nonbeing.

Ultimately it becomes difficult to distinguish a formless Being (Brahman) from a formless nonbeing (shunyata).

Now Minister Freneksy had ceased; his expressionless face seemed to become more severe, more withdrawn into the vacuum of his own intensity, the nonBeing which seemed to be his major quality.

Determinedly unmusical in every fiber of its nonbeing, the poor thing beeped and clanked and wheezed, set off percussion blasts to no evident purpose, and stumbled through various traditional forms with metronomic regularity.

Dairine opened her mouth to try to explain a human's terror of being lost into endless nonbeing: that horror at the bottom of the fear of anesthesia and HIGH WIZARDRY 455 death.

EPILOGUE SPRING 2222 Starlight and Nonbeing Starlight asked Nonbeing: "Master, are you?

Routley's book, Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond: An Investigation of Noneism and the Theory of Items, was published in 1980, while Priest's 2005 book is entitled Towards Nonbeing: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality.

While the man who became St. Augustine would sometimes speak of Satan as the source of evil, his later work, the theology that became the defining philosophy of Christian belief about evil, conceived of it not in terms of a Being, a Satan, but as Nonbeing.

Lines 5-6: Always passionless, thereby observe the subtle; ever intent, thereby observe the apparent This passage is also read, Eternal nonbeing is needed to observe the subtle; eternal being is needed to observe the manifest These lines are one of the keys to Taoist praxis.

No creature can be without nonbeing; otherwise it would be God... The only self-knowledge is to distinguish well between our self-being and our nonbeing... Within our selfbeing there lies an infinity, a footprint or reflection of the omniscience and omnipresence of God."