...This essay has two parts. The first proposes some ways of thinking about the field of nonexistent arts as whole, in effect making some advance inroads into it. The second part tries to cast light on why certain artforms that seem eminently possible in fact fail to exist, through a case study of one...

...0 10 02 2000 First, writing is a social gesture; it is a form of self-expression allotted to men. In Bengali culture, most gestures are codified according to gender, and women’s gestures are especially clearly codified by the duties and space allotted to them by society. nonexistent expression...

...0 17 10 2002 ‘Neurotransmitter’ is a term nowadays in use not only by neuroscientists but also by the lay person citing from the popular science columns. Yet both the concept and the term were nonexistent only a century ago. At that time it was thought that nerve–nerve and nerve–muscle...

...0 27 07 1995 This existent agent Does not perform an existent action. Nor does some nonexistent agent Perform some nonexistent action. An existent entity has no activity. There would also be action without an agent. An existent entity has no activity. There would also be agent without action...

.... With birth control virtually nonexistent, and with the possibility of pregnancy being grounds for criminal charges against the divorcing party, not to mention the scandal of illegitimacy, it is not surprising that Jig saw himself as someone hounded by society and deprived of sexual relations on the turn...

... in the account of existence and nonexistence. And merely intentional objects, which exist only in being represented, provide the clearest paradigm of things that are, but are not in themselves. Philosophical views about that sort of nonexistent objects...

...-familiar routine of everyday life is on the verge of obsolescence. Designed to evoke the gentle quaintness of turn-of-the-century life, Mr. Neeley’s wagon and the dissolving ice only suggest its difficulties: the deadly provincialism, the nonexistent sanitation, the claustrophobic, endless summer heat...

... of the world of conditioned things as a whole. The target position is the view that dependent arising itself, as well as dependently arisen things, are either inherently existent or completely nonexistent. There are really two positions here with which Nāgārjuna’ must contend: First, the reificationist...

...Death and Nonexistence. Palle Yourgrau, Oxford University Press (2019). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190247478.003.0008 A synoptic account of the ontology of death developed in the book is offered, according to which the dead (and the unborn) are seen...

... phenomenology phenomenal character Russell B truth the true Jackson F C Kroon F awareness conscious mereology substance system philosophical Chisholm R M Textor M Giustina A Seron D intentionality phenomenal intentionality adverbialism relations nonexistent objects Brentano The notion...

...When people die, when they cease to exist, do facts about them linger? Indeed, isn’t it the most important fact about the dead that they are dead, i.e., nonexistent? Yet how can there be facts about what isn’t? Similarly, is it a fact in a world without Moses that it is a world without Moses...

... attitude A and some property F, X As that many Gs are F Exotic objects are objects that are nonexistent, nonactual, or nonconcrete. Some have posited such objects as a way to preserve and simplify their preferred semantic theories and to intentionality. This chapter is devoted to arguing that we do...

... the speaker an advantage over him. . . . Logically, the self- elevation of the speaker is nonsense, since the dead (nonexistent) differ categorically from the living x | preface the publication of Thomas Nagel s seminal essay Death. 2 Historically, Plato s dialogue The Phaedo is the locus classicus...

... questions. But there were none. Historians fill the hole with a nonexistent philosopher. The most resilient plug is Hermes Trismegistus. Hermes has survived several debunkings and is popular in current New Age philosophy. possible worlds alchemy binary notation death Egypt Egyptian philosophy Hermes...

...Women break into the male-dominated realm of nonexistent philosophers. They arrive as Christian counterweights to the pagan philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was killed by a Christian mob. The lack of response to her murder by Christian leaders made her a secular martyr. After centuries...

...0 13 11 1997 On this point, as on many others, we must be careful in the use which we make of our evidence and particularly of silences in our evidence. In decrees from the states of Thessaly mention of a council is almost nonexistent except in Demetrias and (with only one decree preserved...