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  • noun Plural form of nonbeing.

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  • If there is no image and since you do not give an explanation, how can all beings and nonbeings become an issue?

    Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy Nagatomo, Shigenori 2006

  • A related view also occurs much later; Ashworth reports that Menghus Blanchellus Faventinus held that term negations such as ˜nonman™ are true of non-beings, and he concluded from this that ˜A nonman is a chimera™ is true (apparently assuming that ˜chimera™ is also true of nonbeings). [

    The Traditional Square of Opposition Parsons, Terence 2006

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