Meanings
- human sciencesThat which does not exist.
It would seem then that the whole subject of predication was to Zeno a mystery, and that it was upon the theory of the impossibility of predication that he rested his denial of the nonent.
2012, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson, The Journal of Philology, volume 14, page 2261 more example
[Xenophanes] only accepts as truth that the ent (or existent) is, while the nonent (or non-existing) is not, the ent being "perfect on every side, like the mass of a rounded sphere, equidistant from the centre at every point," continuous.
1953, J. L. E. Dreyer, A History of Astronomy from Thales to Kepler, page 20
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