The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and NonbeingRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 249 pagina's No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant no is another no, that of preventive command, and the great commandments of later life continue to be prohibitions: Nine of the Ten Commandments are in the negative. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing. |
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Aboriginal Naysaying Willful No | 7 |
1 THE TERRIBLE TWOS | 8 |
2 DEVILS AND DEMONS | 13 |
3 WILLFUL ANSWERS | 17 |
The Negation of Speech Logical Not | 25 |
1 WHAT IS NEGATION? | 26 |
2 WHERE IS A SENTENCE NEGATED? | 32 |
3 WHETHER THE POSITIVE IS PRIOR TO THE NEGATIVE? | 36 |
Thinking the Unsayable Philosophical Nonbeing | 123 |
PLATOS DIALOGUE | 138 |
The Moving Soul of Thought Dialectical Negativity | 155 |
HEGELS PHENOMENOLOGY | 156 |
KANT | 159 |
HEGELS LOGIC | 162 |
The Absolute Opposite Nothing | 169 |
1 APPEARANCES OF NOTHING | 170 |
4 HOW IS NEGATION RELATED TO FALSITY? | 42 |
5 DOUBLE NEGATION | 49 |
6 NEGATIVE SELFREFERENCE | 52 |
7 NEGATIVE NUMBERS AND ZERO | 56 |
Nonfact and Fiction Logical Nonexistence | 75 |
NONEXISTENCE | 76 |
2 NONEXISTENCE VERSUS NONBEING | 78 |
RUSSELLS THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS | 81 |
MEINONGS THEORY OF OBJECTS | 86 |
PARSONSS ANALYTIC VERSION | 91 |
FORMAL THEORY AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE | 93 |
7 IS NONEXISTENCE A PREDICATE? FINAL QUESTIONS | 103 |
THE EAST | 173 |
THE WEST | 175 |
4 NIHILISM AS A MODERN MOVEMENT | 179 |
THE NOTHING THAT NAUGHTS | 184 |
DEATH | 188 |
What Then Is Naysaying? | 211 |
2 THE NEGATION OF BEING | 213 |
3 THE NAY AND YEA OF IMAGINATION AND TIME | 216 |
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Index | 233 |
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actual affirmation answer argument Aristotle assertion beginning belongs Brann called chapter comes concept contradiction contrariety copula course Cretan Critique death denial denoting deny Descartes dialectic distinction double negation entities essence Eva Brann example existence experience expression fact false falsity fictions goddess Greek Hegel Heidegger Heraclitus human imagination inquiry insofar judgment Kant Kant's kind language liar logical negation logicians material implication means Meinong Metaphysics nature naysaying nega negative numbers nihilism nihilist Nonbeing nonexistent objects not-p nothingness notion Odysseus opposition original paradox Parmenides Parsons philosophical Plato poem positive possible predicate properties proposition question quotation reality reason reference relation Russell Russell's seems sense sentence simply Socrates Sophist sort soul speak speech statement symbol tell tence Theaetetus theory Theory of Descriptions thing thought tion tive true truth truth table understanding unicorns utter verb Wittgenstein word zero
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