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Nowness vs Notness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between nowness and notness

is that nowness is the property of happening now, or relating to now while notness is (philosophy) the state of not being; nonexistence.

nowness

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Noun

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  • The property of happening now, or relating to now.

    • See also

    * hereness

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    notness

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    Noun

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  • (philosophy) The state of not being; nonexistence.
  • * 2004 , Martin Kavka, Jewish messianism and the history of philosophy
    • For Heidegger, it is in the notness of nonbeing that we find the possibility for understanding an object, not simply as something other than some other sensible object but also as the being that is other than being.

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