Nothing having being after non-being can be eternal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputee] Reference

The world, as a created thing, has being after non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputee] Reference

I wavered back and forth between consciousness and black non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Zero Stone]

Creation is normally understood as coming into being from non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Scottus Eriugena] Reference

For the bringing-to-be of beings from non-being belongs to no other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Kindi] Reference

Second, what is involved in “bringing being to be from non-being”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Kindi] Reference

McCain has now entered the "non-being" zone ... he is not worthy of us.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: "Who Is The Real Barack Obama?" McCain Supporter: "Terrorist!"] Reference

It is for this reason that we say even of non-being that it is nonbeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

non-being — nor does an engendered thing pass from utter non-being into.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

Although the non-being of an object may be guaranteed by the object's nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvation Santa] Reference

Secondly, of what sort of non-being and being do the things that are consist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

As such, Joshū's “no” points to a transcendence of being and non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy] Reference

What sort of being and non-being, then, by their union pluralize the things that are?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

Wang Bi (ca. 300) took non-being to be the background and thus to “give rise to” being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

In reality, no essence is indifferent to the point of being equally disposed toward being and non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference

Trying to figure what the background of a being and non-being contrast was formed a central issue for their.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

The metaphysical good of reality correlates with the metaphysical evil of privation of reality or non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Ethics] Reference

The functions assigned to it, however, as we have seen varied as radically as “being” and “non-being.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

They buttressed this social stoicism with metaphysical systems focused on the puzzle of “being and non-being.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

Incomplete objects that are not contradictorily determined and their non-being is not “explicitly presupposed”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvation Santa] Reference

One might raise the question from what sort of non-being generation proceeds; for ‘non-being’ has three senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

If, however, the world arises out of nothing as out of a point of origin, then the world has being after non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputee] Reference

For everything which is thought of is either thought of as a non-being, or as a being in potency, or as a being in act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputee] Reference

For completely pure being itself occurs only in full flight from non-being, just as nothingness is in full flight from being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amputee] Reference

The second way is introduced alongside the first because the modality of necessary non-being or impossibility specified in fr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parmenides] Reference

This realization is both the inner reality of enlightenment and corresponds to a mystical answer to the being/non-being of Nirvana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

If Nirvana was the opposite of Samsara (the eternal cycle of rebirth or reincarnation) then was it a state of being or of non-being?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

In other words, being would have to be differentiated by some non-being, which, according to Aristotle, is a metaphysical absurdity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Categories] Reference

This thinker means by the non-being the union of which with being pluralizes the things that are, the false and the character of falsity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

But what is corrupted by substantial corruption after being corrupted, exists no longer, since corruption is change from being to non-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

Reply Obj. 2: Baptism is spiritual generation, which is a transition from spiritual non-being into spiritual being, and is given by way of ablution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference

First of all because in both, one of the extremes passes into the other, as bread into Christ's body, and air into fire; whereas non-being is not converted into being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference