different between not_a_soul vs nonexistent

English

Alternative forms

• non-existent

Etymology

From non- +? existent.

Adjective

nonexistent (not comparable)

1. Not existent; not real.

   Synonyms: inexistent; see also Thesaurus:inexistent

   • 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census: 1995 Test Census Presents Opportunities to Evaluate New Census-Taking Methods, US General Accounting Office, page 4,

     In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.

   • 1996, Dale Jacquette, Meinongian Logic: The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence, Walter de Gruyter, page 7,

     If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.

   • 2015, Jonathan Gold, Paving the Great Way: Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy, Columbia University Press, 2016, Paperback, page 275,

     Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.

Related terms

• nonexistence
• nonexistential

Translations

Further reading

• Existence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia