nonbeing

基本解释

This is the old Platonic riddle of nonbeing.
这就是古老的柏拉图的非存在之谜。
The purpose of existence is, quite simply, being as opposed to nonbeing.
存在的目的是,非常简单,存在,对应于不存在。
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not?
非存在必定在某种意义上存在，否则那不存在的东西是什么呢?
Good and evil lose their meaning, and in the absolute being coincides with nonbeing.
(好与坏已经失去了本来的含义，绝对的一致将不再存在。
Neither we nor Wyman nor McX have been contending, thus far, about the being or nonbeing of universals, but rather about that of Pegasus.
直到现在无论我们还是麦克西或怀曼除了对飞马的存在或不存在的问题有所争论外，都没有对共相的存在或不存在有所争论。

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