This we may freely admit, for what does one try to do when one makes the effort to imagine the nonexistence of space?
It would, perhaps, be fairer to translate the first half of this sentence as follows: "We can never picture to ourselves the nonexistence of space.
What does it mean to imagine or represent to oneself the nonexistence of material objects?
Who cares to regard his mind as an "epiphenomenon"--a thing that exists, but whose existence or nonexistence makes no difference to the course of affairs?
Kant is not so much concerned to prove the nonexistence of noumena, things-in-themselves, as he is to prove that the very conception is an empty one.
They may criticise in detail his arguments to prove the nonexistence of a genuinely external world, but they will be ready to admit that his doctrine is an inspiring one in the view that it takes of the world and of man.
The Nonexistence of Evil According to Bahá’í philosophy it follows from the doctrine of the unity of God that there can be no such thing as positive evil.
Although the material life has existence, it is pure nonexistence and absolute death for the holy saints.
Ignorance is the nonexistence of knowledge, and if there were no existence, nonexistence could not be realized.
Pure nonexistencecan have no specification or individualization in the degrees of knowledge.
The second proposition is that existence and nonexistence are both relative.
So this flower, this hyacinth, during a certain period of time was coming from the world of nonexistence into being, and now it is going from being into nonexistence.
Both exist, but the existence of dust and mineral, in relation to man, is nonexistence and nothingness; for when man becomes nonexistent, he returns to dust and mineral.
Everything is either growing or declining; all things are either coming from nonexistence into being, or going from existence into nonexistence.
The annihilation of the other beings is the same, for existence does not become absolute nonexistence, and absolute nonexistence does not become existence.
A certain class of writers base their objection to a regular trial on the ground of the nonexistence of the Great Sanhedrin at the time of Christ.
At most, composition is ever subject to decomposition or disintegration—that is to say, existence implies the grouping of material elements in a form or body, and nonexistence is simply the decomposing of these groupings.
If we think of the sun and then try to conceive of the cessation of the solar flame and heat, we have predicated the nonexistence of the sun.
Existence or the expression of being is, therefore, composition; and nonexistence is decomposition, division, disintegration.
If he becomes the center of the imperfections of the world of humanity, death is better than life, and nonexistence better than existence.
Some define existence as the expression of reality or being and nonexistence as nonbeing, imagining that death is annihilation.
Various elements unite harmoniously in composition, but when these elements become discordant, repelling each other, decomposition and nonexistence result.
If it be the cause of enmity, bloodshed and hatred, its nonbeing is better than its being, its nonexistence better than its existence.
Religion is meant to be the quickening life of the body politic; if it be the cause of death to humanity, its nonexistence would be a blessing and benefit to man.
All created things are expressions of the affinity and cohesion of elementary substances, and nonexistence is the absence of their attraction and agreement.
Nonexistence is the expression and outcome of division and disintegration.
Therefore, it is well proved that absolute nonexistence is impossible; it is only relative.
When this attraction or atomic affinity is destroyed, the power of life ceases to manifest; death and nonexistence result.
Consider how clearly it is shown in creation that the cause of existence is unity and cohesion and the cause of nonexistence is separation and dissension.
When he attempted to show the nonexistence of God his negation was directed against the notions of God which exhibited Him as a Being with human passions, as an autocratic tyrant.
It does not," he writes, "prove the nonexistence of a thing that it is not discoverable by reason; feeling here affords us sufficient proof.
Several hours after lying down, Todd's air mattress had deflated to the point of nonexistence and, bone meeting floor, he had no choice but to inflate the mattress once again.
Dream on, Laurie, for dreams carry no malignancy; dreams can be kept alive or brought to nonexistence as the individual mind sees fit.
