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  • “Absolute Nothingness,” and he accordingly suggests the following as a definition of the School: “a group of philosophers spanning several generations who developed their thought in several areas of philosophy with the idea of ˜Nothingness™ as a basis” (ibid., 10; see Ôhashi 2001, 13).

    The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006

  • Dress it up however you like – but your brand of Know Nothingness is worth little more than ridicule.

    Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists. 2007

  • Thee, Heaven, after Death, only One blessed in Nothingness, not light or darkness, Dayless Eternity —

    Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Nothingness is threatening because of its inertia as well as its blankness, its "indifferent" refusal to lift the body into the spirit world.

    Hegel on Buddhism 2007

  • Thee, Heaven, after Death, only One blessed in Nothingness, not light or darkness, Dayless Eternity —

    Yizkor Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • They say that mere Nothingness is the basis of all things; that all things are brought out of this

    Hegel on Buddhism 2007

  • Sartre took speed, too—and wrote Being and Nothingness, which is a gigantic smoke generator of abstraction.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Sartre took speed, too—and wrote Being and Nothingness, which is a gigantic smoke generator of abstraction.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • 'Nothingness' may be an unstable state. fifth monarchy man: My claim is if the Big Bang is explained by other contingent processes these processes in turn will need to be explained by other processes until finally we reach a necessary cause.

    Dawkins and ID 2008

  • "Nothingness" becomes an evocative term which Western philosphy after Hegel will try to include, exclude and police in numerous ways.

    Abstracts 2007

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