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Automatic Nothingness

Timothy Morton

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Types of Nothing

oukontic non-being “not even nothing” meontic un-being nothingness

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What constitutes pretense is that, in

the end, you don’t know whether it’s

pretense or not. Jacques Lacan

This sentence is false

This is not a sentence

“This sentence is false

is not a sentence” 

Alfred Tarski

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