In the beginning, my dear, this world was just Being (sat), one only, without a second. To be sure, some people say : " In the beginning this world was just Non-being (asat), one only without a second ; from that Nonbeing Being was produced.

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Page 7 Essentia, and the like,) which have arisen from overlooking the double meaning of the word to be; from supposing that when it signifies to exist, and when it signifies to be some specified thing, as to be a man, to be Socrates, to be seen... Appears in 12 books from 1845-1995

Page 18 We look to bound variables in connection with ontology not in order to know what there is, but in order to know what a given remark or doctrine, ours or someone else's, says there is; and this much is quite properly a problem involving language. Appears in 29 books from 1948-2004

Page 7 A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there? Appears in 49 books from 1948-2008

Page 6 Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, di ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges hinzukommen könne. Es ist bloß die Position eines Dinges oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst. Appears in 151 books from 1828-2007

Page 7 ... when it signifies to exist, and when it signifies to be some specified thing, as to be a man, to be Socrates, to be seen or spoken of, to be a phantom, even to be a nonentity, it must still, at bottom, answer to the same idea; and that a meaning must be found for it which shall suit all these cases. The fog which rose from this narrow spot diffused itself at an early period over the whole surface of metaphysics. Appears in 13 books from 1843-2004

Page 143 - Bhdva/satta is the common denominator, the one universal ingredient of all concrete and particular entities. It circumscribes the totality of entities at the cosmological level of enumeration and classification, and it is added to these entities as if it were an enumerable, cosmological entity itself. Appears in 5 books from 1992-2005

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