Notness

Origin

not + -ness

Full definition of notness

Noun

1. (philosophy) The state of not being; nonexistence.
• 2004, Martin Kavka, Jewish messianism and the history of philosophyFor Heidegger, it is in the notness of nonbeing that we find the possibility for understanding an object, not simply as something other than some other sensible object but also as the being that is other than being.

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