nonexist

English

Etymology

Probably a back-formation from nonexistent. Synchronically equivalent to non- +‎ exist.

Verb

nonexist (third-person singular simple present nonexists, present participle nonexisting, simple past and past participle nonexisted)

(intransitive) To not exist; to unexist.
- 1860, Charles Kittredge True, The Elements of Logic, page 167:
  Nothing is by the laws of the mind to be held as having no beginning, which we can rationally conceive to have once nonexisted and then begun.
- 1974, Stanisław Lem, trans. Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad:
  The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way.
- 1974, John Boyer Noss, Man’s Religions, fifth edition, page 160:
  Like the Buddha, samsara and Nirvana neither exist nor nonexist, nor both exist and nonexist, nor neither exist nor nonexist.
- 1993, Daniel Kolak, Self, Cosmos, God, page 370:
  Of something that does not satisfy the presupposition of the pair exists and nonexists, and so neither exists nor nonexists, we cannot ask why it exists.

单词	nonexist
释义	nonexist English Etymology Probably a back-formation from nonexistent. Synchronically equivalent to non- +‎ exist. Verb nonexist (third-person singular simple present nonexists, present participle nonexisting, simple past and past participle nonexisted) (intransitive) To not exist; to unexist. 1860, Charles Kittredge True, The Elements of Logic, page 167: Nothing is by the laws of the mind to be held as having no beginning, which we can rationally conceive to have once nonexisted and then begun. 1974, Stanisław Lem, trans. Michael Kandel, The Cyberiad: The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way. 1974, John Boyer Noss, Man’s Religions, fifth edition, page 160: Like the Buddha, samsara and Nirvana neither exist nor nonexist, nor both exist and nonexist, nor neither exist nor nonexist. 1993, Daniel Kolak, Self, Cosmos, God, page 370: Of something that does not satisfy the presupposition of the pair exists and nonexists, and so neither exists nor nonexists, we cannot ask why it exists.
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