nonbeing

基本解釋

This is the old Platonic riddle of nonbeing.
這就是古老的柏拉圖的非存在之謎。
The purpose of existence is, quite simply, being as opposed to nonbeing.
存在的目的是,非常簡單,存在,對應(yīng)於不存在。
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not?
非存在必定在某種意義上存在，否則那不存在的東西是什麼呢?
Good and evil lose their meaning, and in the absolute being coincides with nonbeing.
(好與壞已經(jīng)失去了本來的含義，絕對的一致將不再存在。
Neither we nor Wyman nor McX have been contending, thus far, about the being or nonbeing of universals, but rather about that of Pegasus.
直到現(xiàn)在無論我們還是麥尅西或懷曼除了對飛馬的存在或不存在的問題有所爭論外，都沒有對共相的存在或不存在有所爭論。

the philosophical problem arising from the fact that the ability to refer appears to presuppose the existence of whatever is referred to, and yet we can talk intelligibly about nonexistent objects