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	Nothing: Absence, non-existence of concrete being or absence of being in general—a category used in a series of ...
		The second approach to the problem asserts the origin of nothingness from formal negation, i.e., nothingness is only a formal logical nominalistic concept, fully removed from the role of the problem of nothingness in ontology.
		However, this chronological asymmetry does not mean ontological priority of nothingness over being, but rather leads to the establishment of a peculiar “dynamic equilibrium” between being-here and nothingness: nothingness permeates all existing spheres as temporal, actively operates in the world.
		The feeling of nothingness becomes possible for humanity thanks to border situations (Jasper’s terminology); among them dread plays the fundamental role, which in its basis is consciousness of the truly ultimate extreme, that is, the feeling of death.
	tomweston.net /nothing2.htm (1224 words)

	Being and Nothingness
		Nothingness, as we have seen above, is the ground of the negation because it conceals the negation within itself, because it is the negation as being.
		It must be clearly understood that this original necessity of being its own nothingness doe not belong to consciousness intermittently and on the occasion of particular negations.
		But we see that the nothingness which is the condition of all transcendent negation can be elucidated only in terms of two other original nihilations:(1) Consciousness is not its own motive inasmuch as it [consciousness] is empty of all content.
	www.luc.edu /faculty/twren/phil120/ch10/beingandnothingness.htm (3039 words)

	Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness
		Nothingness is always right there with being; being can not escape nothingness.
		As David, this is becoming nothingness to me. I am vegetarian (vegan), do not drink alcohol, don't smoke, the Hawg is memory (though I rent one from time to time), and workaholism (still sits on my shoulder).
		The flight of the for-itself is the refusal of contingency by the very act which constitutes the for-itself as being the foundation of its nothingness.
	cbae.nmsu.edu /~dboje/teaching/503/sartre_links.htm (4026 words)

	Al Gore and Nothingness
		As he speaks from concealment he is nothinging or nihilating: his self is the self that creates or clears the absence that he presents, and the presentation from which he is absent.
		His self is nothingness, the source of the nullity he embodies in public space.
		Nothingness now beckons us from our televisions to vote for it, to endorse it, to choose it to represent us; that is, it urges and cajoles us to become sheer void.
	cda.mrs.umn.edu /~okeefets/algore-nothingness.html (1005 words)

	Nothingness : The Science of Empty Space
		Genz uses water and its various states as an analogy for the 'nothingness' and matter in the universe.
		Likewise, his introduction, in the Epilogue no less and with only a page or two to go in the book, of baby universes and wormholes leaves the reader wondering if portions of the book were tossed together at the last moment.
		Be careful not to meet up with your anti-you or the two of you may be sucked back into the nothingness that makes up this vacuum fluctuation known as our universe.
	www.2think.org /nothingness.shtml (930 words)

	Paul Auster's Urban Nothingness
		The core idea of modern nothingness is that the more difficult our rational effort to understand an event gets, the more our reference categories crumble in our hands.
		He has walked the main city avenues and then, as if pushed by the invisible hand of modern nothingness, he spontaneously turns into the man he is trailing: an outcast and a tramp.
		In this sense, Auster's modern nothingness can be seen as one of the possible metaphors of our contemporary condition, a situation in which individuals lose their hopes of finding in the urban surroundings the fulfilment of their social aims.
	www.bluecricket.com /auster/articles/nothing.html (1965 words)

	Nothingness Theory
		Nothingness Theory reveals how this is manifest in the laws of physics, and its implications for philosophy and theology.
		Nothingness Theory (as well as quantum physics) establishes that space is infinite, so there can be no limit to size (big or small) and therefore no ultimate constituents.
		Nothingness Theory is the expression and detailed exploration of this beautiful form, manifest in the dynamics of existence.
	www.nothingnesstheory.com (585 words)

	Nothingness made visible: the case of Rothko's paintings Art Journal - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For Sartre, nothingness is a nonbeing, a negation of all the entities in the world, which comes into "existence" through human consciousness.
		Although Sartre argues that nothingness is the origin of negation and not the result of it, it is nonetheless a nonbeing, a negation of being, and depends on being, an entity, in order to negate it.
		I believe that a perception of nothingness as that which constitutes beings, one closer to Heidegger's than Sartre's, corresponds to nothingness as represented in Rothko's paintings and might indeed relate to how he himself thought of it.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0425/is_2_64/ai_n15340968?... (783 words)

	NOTHINGNESS AND `SUUYATAA:
		By contrast, nothingness in the sense of `suunyataa means emptiness of a kind that "empties itself even of the standpoint that represents it as some 'thing' that is emptiness" or to which existence merely relates.
		Instead of being a derivative of negation or the semantic "not," Heidegger insisted that nothingness is "more original than the 'not' and negation." From the vantage of Dasein, nothingness was encountered in the state of "dread" (Angst), which was not equivalent to mere anxiety or nervousness, but rather meant a basic openness to nonbeing.
		Nothingness is that which makes the disclosure of being(s) as such possible for our human existence." Sharpening this point further, he added: "Nothingness not merely designates the conceptual opposite of beings but is an integral part of their essence.
	ccbs.ntu.edu.tw /FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/fred.htm (2632 words)

	Nothingness. « paintist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dictionaries typically give a circular definition of “nothingness is the state of being nothing” or characterizing “nothing” as being a type of “something” such as “Something that has no existence.” These two slightly erroneous definitions either do not clearly define nor distinguish what nothingness means.
		So we will instead have to agree that the definitions of nothing is what something is not and that nothingness is the state of where something does not exist.
		Either nothingness existed and by a twist of logic it gave must have given birth to “something” which has chaotically continued to affect the universe..
	paintist.wordpress.com /essays/nothingness (491 words)

	Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (sometimes subtitled A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology) is a 1943 philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre that is regarded as the beginning of the growth of existentialism in the 20th century.
		Sartre’s overriding concern in writing Being and Nothingness was to vindicate the fundamental freedom of the human being, against determinists of all stripes.
		Being and Nothingness is clearly influenced by Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, though Sartre was profoundly skeptical of any measure by which humanity could achieve a kind of personal state of fulfillment comparable to the hypothetical Heideggerian re-encounter with Being.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Being_and_Nothingness (1851 words)

	New World Vision - Nothingness
		I call it Nothingness… We are so busy running around doing that many of us never get a chance just to be….
		How to practice Nothingness: Find a chair or couch to sit or lie down on, where you are alone.
		Nothingness has nothing to do with results or achievement.
	www.newworldvision.org /nothingness.html (329 words)

	nothingness \| Ask MetaFilter
		This is actually at the root of a significant problem in modern physics: vacuum energy should behave as a certain energy per volume of space, exactly like Einstein's cosmological constant.
		It seems to me that what your question is actually about is some imaginary properties of imaginary gaps between imaginary billiard balls in an imaginary storm of virtual particles; that is, you're asking questions about a physically intuitive model of an inadequately understood mathematical model of the finest scale of reality.
		Even this would be unlike the nothingness 'outside' the universe, for which it's meaningless to talk in those terms.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/34107 (2058 words)

	Nothingness
		Being and Nothingness : A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes (Translator)
		Jean-Paul Sartre, the seminal smarty-pants of mid-century thinking, launched the existentialist fleet with the publication of Being and Nothingness in 1943.
		The often criticized philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~topics/html/nothingness.htm (818 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Emptiness vs. Nothingness
		Nothingness would fall under nihilism and is pessimistic.
		I think words such as 'emptiness' and/or 'nothingness' are a continuation of this type of approach.
		Nothingness is nothing at all, no buts about it.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/index.php?showtopic=14443 (3145 words)

	Death
		If, as I will argue, nothingness cannot be anything positively existent, that is, if it truly (as the term would indicate) doesn't exist, then the situation at death cannot involve falling into it.
		From their perspective, it's as if they have always been present, always here; as if the various worlds evoked by consciousness were always "in place." Of course we know that they are not always in place from an objective standpoint, but their own non-being is never an experienced actuality for them.
		If there are no subjective gaps of positive nothingness between successive experiences of a single individual, then there won't be such a gap between a person's last experience and the first experience of his or her radically transformed successor.
	www.naturalism.org /death.htm (5396 words)

	Essay: Reconciling Nothingness in the Universe and the Soul
		When we last heard from the notion, Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existentialist philosopher, was writing that "nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being" in his decidedly something-sized tome "Being and Nothingness" (first published in 1943).
		Now the notion has cropped up outside of philosophical tracts, as physicists have identified nothingness to be the central mystery of the origin and structure of the universe.
		Einstein first noticed that according to his theory of relativity, any weight of nothingness in space could push galaxies apart from one another, the effect that astronomers have recently observed.
	faculty.washington.edu /smcohen/320/Nothingness.html (847 words)

	Nothingness Substance
		It seems ridiculos doesn't it, that we could define a something as a nothingness, but if we think slightly more lateral, it does indeed become possible.
		Firstly we have to understand, that if there is a something in the universe, it must logicall apply to the laws of physics.
		With the nothingness defined, I could move rapidly to the next stage and explain whole the universe was created.
	members.madasafish.com /~newtheories/sas_15.html (282 words)

	Nothingness
		A more popular way to build a presumption in favor of nothingness is to associate nothingness with simplicity and simplicity with likelihood.
		Since he is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the Infinite in which he is swallowed up.
		Pascal's association of nothingness with insignificance and meaninglessness presages themes popularized by existentialists in the twentieth century.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/win2004/entries/nothingness (6525 words)

	Being and Nothingness
		The conceptual pair "Being and Nothing(ness)" denotes for Sartre the central ontological relation as discussed in German Philosophy (notably in Hegel and Heidegger).
		As J. Catalano explains in his Commentary of Being and Nothingness (1976), the term transcendence applied to a lie has two meanings: (1) A lie is "transcendent" because it is "directed beyond, or outside, one subject to another", and (2) its basis (its potential truth) is "outside the nature of consciousness" (p.79).
		Anyway, as soon as we posit ourselves as certain being we surpass that being toward nothingness (we negate that being, we are more than it or we are something else).
	www.uri.edu /personal/szunjic/philos/being.htm (11762 words)

	Nothingness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		When Heidegger connects negation with nothingness and death, these logicians are put in mind of an epitaph that toys with the principle of excluded middle: Mrs Nott was Nott Alive and is Nott Dead.
		Beebee, Helen (2004) "Causation and Nothingness", in Causation and Counterfactuals, ed.
		Carlson, Erik and Erik J. Olsson (2001) "The Presumption of Nothingness", Ratio, 14: 203-221.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/nothingness (7509 words)

	Nothingness
		By understanding this, and by learning to use this Nothingness, we may be able to live fuller, more effective, and much more pleasant lives.
		My response to her, “It’s just a story” sent her story into the Nothingness, and the stress and tension could no longer be supported.
		But this is a person I have worked with for awhile, she knows all the “right” things to do, but she is seeking to experience a deeper, richer experience of her herself, her family and others.
	www.compassionworks.com /s_stress_into_nothing.htm (687 words)

	CDI Russia Weekly #213 - Extremism and Nothingness
		After the initial reaction to the events of 9/11, the patriotic spell has given way to the all-embracing sense of uncertainty.
		This is a big blow to Americans, who are used to planning everything in life, even their own funerals as if they are going to be mere guests at them.
		U.S.A., though, is not the only country where nostalgia, mixed with the grayness of reality, might become a cause of inner or outer unrest and rebellion.
	www.cdi.org /russia/213-5.cfm (815 words)

	Amazon.com: Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space (Helix Books): Books: Henning Genz,Karin Heusch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The stories are uniformly engrossing and enlightening, and while the science can get a bit abstruse from time to time, the narrative thread runs independently of the hard stuff.
		Genz demonstrates that even if a cubic meter of this "empty space" were totally free of dust, gas or the occasionally stray atom, it would still be illuminated by radiation.
		Questions about being and nothingness are shown to relate to today's most important questions in physics and cosmology?for instance, whether the large-scale structures in the universe, and the emergence of life itself, can be traced to transitions between various vacuum states.
	www.amazon.com /Nothingness-Science-Empty-Space-Helix/dp/0738200611 (1695 words)

	Nothingness
		But completely experiencing the nature of the mind involves complete openness, or complete nothingness; when you really experience the nature of the mind, there is utter stillness with no observer observing anything, no experience, thought or label.
		In some sense, nothingness is the unstructured and unimpeded nature of pure presence.
		We feel our presence phenomenologically as the openness, nothingness so total that it does not impede anything.
	www.ahalmaas.com /glossary/n/nothingness.htm (294 words)

	Nothingness and Reality by Naveen Jagan
		Remember our Universe came from the Nothingness and it is this Nothingness which is the main part of Reality.
		Nothingness as against Existence is our best hope of furthering our understanding of Reality.
		Of course, this still leaves us with no description of the things we know are in Existence and in our Universe but if we use the concept of Nothingness in our investigation of Energy/Mass, Space, Time and Gravity we will get a better understanding of the tremendous occurrences inherent in the Universe.
	www.boloji.com /hinduism/00605.htm (515 words)

	Nothingness - Pat Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It occurred to me with all this talk about nothingness, one might get the impression that I'm a slacker.
		At a fundamental level, we're all living in an elaborate illusion of Nothingness.
		Everything around us, our thoughts, our perceptions, the entire universe, are nothing more than varying aggregates of fast-moving and slow-moving energy that may or may not exist at any particular point in time.
	home.comcast.net /~pat1776/nothingness.html (492 words)

	Remony of Ladonia - The Office of Nothingness
		The 1st Chamber of The Ladonian Parliament - This topic is not a part of the Office of Nothingness' concern.
		I myself is hosting a project called The National Poem of Nothingness.
		One can defy nothingness, reject it, and say the nothing does not exist, for when you are thinking of nothing, you are actually thinking of something.
	members.tripod.com /~stanislavs/ladonia/ladonia.htm (719 words)

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