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Full Idea
'Being' is unprovable, because there is no 'being'. The concept of being is formed out of the opposition to 'nothingness'.
Gist of Idea
There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1884-85 [1884], 25[185])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Fragments from 1884-85 (v 15)', ed/tr. Loeb,P.S./Tinsley,D.F. [Stanford 2022], p.54
A Reaction
Presumably a comment on Hegel's most basic idea. I find both thoughts bewildering. 'Being' is just a generalised (and unhelpful) way of referring to the self-evident existence of stuff.
| 24112 | To think about being we must have an opinion about what it is [Nietzsche] |
| 24131 | There is no 'being'; it is just the opposition to nothingness [Nietzsche] |
| 5657 | Frege's logic showed that there is no concept of being [Frege, by Scruton] |
| 23077 | The word 'being' is very tempting, but in fact means nothing at all [Cioran] |
| 10787 | Is being just referent of the verb 'to be'? [Marcus (Barcan)] |
| 21847 | Before Being there is politics [Deleuze] |
| 21903 | Ontology does not tell what there is; it is just a strange adventure [Deleuze, by May] |
| 21904 | Being is a problem to be engaged, not solved, and needs a new mode of thinking [Deleuze, by May] |
| 12332 | The modern view of Being comes when we reject numbers as merely successions of One [Badiou] |
| 12326 | The primitive name of Being is the empty set; in a sense, only the empty set 'is' [Badiou] |