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"No concept, no matter what it might be," said Immanuel Kant, "could render comprehensible the possibility of an alteration ... for instance the being and the not-being of one and the same thing in one and the same place."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Biocentrism And The Existence Of God M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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"No concept, no matter what it might be," said Immanuel Kant, "could render comprehensible the possibility of an alteration ... for instance the being and the not-being of one and the same thing in one and the same place."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Biocentrism And The Existence Of God M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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"No concept, no matter what it might be," said Immanuel Kant, "could render comprehensible the possibility of an alteration ... for instance the being and the not-being of one and the same thing in one and the same place."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Biocentrism And The Existence Of God M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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"No concept, no matter what it might be," said Immanuel Kant, "could render comprehensible the possibility of an alteration ... for instance the being and the not-being of one and the same thing in one and the same place."
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Biocentrism And The Existence Of God M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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The not-feeling is like not-being, only more so: it is being all the way through, nothing to get in the way.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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The not-feeling is like not-being, only more so: it is being all the way through, nothing to get in the way.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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The not-feeling is like not-being, only more so: it is being all the way through, nothing to get in the way.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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He also places ˜not-being™ above the Intellect at the highest plane of reality and occasionally writes in a manner reminiscent of Proclus 'divine henads.
The Garbage House 2009
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I agree with Cheryl, "not-being" the NY Times is probably a very good thing.
OpEdNEws Demands Civility Among Disagreeing Progressives 2008
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If one treats the physical world as metaphysically defective, as victimized in any and every respect by its being and not-being, then that suffices to preclude one from knowing anything about such a world.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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