nothingness
| Nonbeing. The concept is much used in existentialism, as in the title of Jean-Paul Sartre's work L'Etre et le néant/Being and Nothingness 1943. |
| In logic, it is an error to assume that every subject of a grammatical sentence is the name of a thing. So when ‘nothingness’ is used as the subject of a grammatical sentence, it must not be assumed that ‘nothingness’ is itself a thing, or the name of anything. |
| Some philosophers think that the problem of why something, rather than nothing, exists is the deepest metaphysical conundrum, whereas others consider it irrelevant. |
| In Buddhism, nothingness is the essence of enlightenment. |
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