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Sunyata, in Buddhist philosophy, the voidness that constitutes ultimate reality; sunyata is seen not as a negation of existence but rather as the undifferentiation out of which all apparent entities, distinctions, and dualities arise.
The negation of existence, therefore, implies the acceptance of nonexistence, while the negation of nonexistence implies the assertion of existence.
無 bo 4 may be ambiguous between negation of existence and negation of deontic modality in Old Chinese.
After one has successfully negated the first extreme, Gorampa concedes that a person's natural inclination is to assume that the negation of existence implies the assertion of nonexistence.
It is noteworthy that 沒 mei 2 resulting from the convergence of 無 and 未 in Mandarin is ambiguous between negation of existence and negation of perfectives or inchoatives, as in 他沒腳 ta 1 mei 2 jiao 3 he not.have leg 'he has no legs' and 他沒繳 he not.yet pay 'he has not paid (e.g., taxes) yet'.
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I'm tired of validating the world's negation of my existence as a woman of color with this thing called internalized oppression.
For example, the negation of the existence of flowers that grows in the sky does not imply the existence of other plants that grow in the sky.
When we think of the possible as somehow "pre-existing" the real, we think of the real, then we add to it the negation of its existence, and then we project the "image" of the possible into the past.
Women have even more limited options, for the Muslim Brotherhood is by definition a negation of their very existence, unless a woman should decide to turn into an honorary "brother".
"Behind the negation of Israel's existence, what is hiding is the hatred of Jews," the French leader said.
Nāgārjuna's commentator Āryadeva applies this fourfold negation to the extremes of existence, nonexistence, both, and neither in his Jñānasārasamuccaya, writing, "There is no existence, there is no nonexistence, there is no existence and nonexistence, nor is there the absence of both".
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