is-not

Much turns on how one understands the ˜is™ (es) of ˜what completely is™ and ˜what is and is-not™, and, concomitantly, whether one treats what belief and knowledge are ˜set over™ as propositions or objects.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

But the point is-not to engage in what Sarah Palin calls finger-pointing backwards, the point here is to note that we're dealing with a consistent pattern of subversive behavior by the Republican Party since 2000 and extending all the way up to the present.

My Interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman 2008

Another aspect of pre-scientific thought which science is-not can be distinguished from speculation by the earlier disregard for nature and focus on exclusively human issues.

Science, technique and philosophy 2007

Consider the timing: The very weekend the National Intelligence Estimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulent failure it is-not a check on terror, but fertilizer for it.

Olbermann Strikes a Blow Too! Christopher O'Brien 2006

Consider the timing: The very weekend the National Intelligence Estimate would be released and show the Iraq war to be the fraudulent failure it is-not a check on terror, but fertilizer for it.

Archive 2006-09-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

Maybe I'm oversensitive after all the is-not/is-too-ism of the political season, but it seems to me that sober assessments like Jack Rosenthal's pinch-hit in NYT's public editor column serve much more purpose than stories like the recent NYT Magazine piece, which was squarely in the blogs-as-circus camp, for all its good points.

It's a Spitball! It's a Filter! 2004

Maybe I'm oversensitive after all the is-not/is-too-ism of the political season, but it seems to me that sober assessments like Jack Rosenthal's pinch-hit in NYT's public editor column serve much more purpose than stories like the recent NYT Magazine piece, which was squarely in the blogs-as-circus camp, for all its good points.

It's a Spitball! It's a Filter! 2004

And what is the rest, that which is-not the tiger, that which the tiger is-not?

Twilight in Italy 2003

For even of a quality we might ask what it is, so that quality also is a ‘what a thing is’, - not in the simple sense, however, but just as, in the case of that which is not, some say, emphasizing the linguistic form, that that is which is not is-not is simply, but is non-existent; so too with quality.

Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

I'm hoping my genes, my example will influence him to know that home is where the heart is-not chasing some fading dream that his dad created for him.

A Man Alone Mckenna, Lindsay 2001