inexistence
See also: in existence
English
Noun
inexistence (usually uncountable, plural inexistences)
- The state of not being, not existing, or not being perceptible.
- 1648, Robert Boyle, Seraphic Love, 1997 Kessinger ed. edition, →ISBN, page 57:
- Our inexistence indeed was a condition, wherein nothing in us was capable of being a motive of God's love; but our enmity proceeded further, and made us worthy of his detestation; […]
- 2007, Jacques-Alain Miller, “The Sinthome, A Mixture of Symptom and Fantasy”, in The Later Lacan, →ISBN, page 57:
- Axiomatics (namely, that everything that will be used for the purposes of a demonstration is explained) does nothing more than formalizing this wiping clean — in other words, inexistence is posed as the condition for necessity to emerge.
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- The state of existing in something
- 1663, Isaac Barrow, “A Defence of the Blessed Trinity”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, published 1830, page 188:
- that there is a mutual inexistence of one in all, and all in one; […]
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- That which exists within; a constituent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Tucker to this entry?)
Usage notes
- In modern philosophical writing, this is chiefly used with the sense "nonexistence" as a literal translation or calque of a corresponding term in another European language, such as the German Inexistenz or the Spanish inexistencia.
Synonyms
- (not existing): nonexistence, absence, lack; See also Thesaurus:inexistence
- (existing within): inherence; See also Thesaurus:intrinsicality
French
Further reading
- “inexistence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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