The ways of naysaying : no, not, nothing, and nonbeing

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface. Purpose and Plan = xi
• Introduction. The Words of Naysaying = 1
• 1. The Root of Naysaying = 1
• 2. The Terms of Naysaying = 2
• Chapter One. Aboriginal Naysaying : Willful No = 7
• 1. The Terrible Twos = 8
• 2. Devils and Demons = 13
• 3. Willful Answers = 17
• Chapter Two. The Negation of Speech : Logical Not = 25
• 1. What Is Negation? = 26
• 2. Where Is a Sentence Negated? = 32
• 3. Whether the Positive Is Prior to the Negative? = 36
• 4. How Is Negation Related to Falsity? = 42
• 5. Double Negation = 49
• 6. Negative Self-Reference = 52
• 7. Negative Numbers and Zero = 56
• Chapter Three. Nonfact and Fiction : Logical Nonexistence = 75
• 1. A Modern Problem : Nonexistence = 76
• 2. Nonexistence versus Nonbeing = 78
• 3. Nonexistence Defanged : Russell's Theory of Descriptions = 81
• 4. Nonexistence Established : Meinong's Theory of Objects = 86
• 5. Meinong Revived : Parsons's Analytic Version = 91
• 6. Lying and Fiction : Formal Theory and Human Experience = 93
• 7. Is Nonexistence a Predicate? Final Questions = 103
• Chapter Four. Thinking the Unsayable : Philosophic Nonbeing = 123
• 1. Nonbeing Launched : Parmenides' Poem = 123
• 2. Nonbeing Enfolded in Being : Plato's Dialogue = 138
• Chapter Five. The Moving Soul of Thought : Dialectical Negativity = 155
• 1. The Negativity of the Spirit : Hegel's Phenomenology = 156
• 2. The Negations of Positive Understanding : Kant = 159
• 3. Negative Reason : Hegel's Logic = 162
• Chapter Six. The Absolute Opposite : Nothing = 169
• 1. Appearances of Nothing = 170
• 2. Nothingness as Attainment : The East = 173
• 3. Nihilism as Confrontation : The West = 175
• 4. Nihilism as a Modern Movement = 179
• 5. Existential Nihilism : The Nothing That "Naughts" = 184
• 6. Nothing as Inescapable End : Death = 188
• Conclusion : What, Then, Is Naysaying? = 211
• 1. The Position of Naysaying = 211
• 2. The Negation of Being = 213
• 3. The Nay and Yea of Imagination and Time = 216
• Bibliography = 219
• Index = 233
• About the Author = 249