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nihilate
verb
To encase in a shell of non-being
The action of consciousness, which is the origin of negation in facticity.
Etymology:
This word was created by w:Jean-Paul Sartre in the original French as néantir. This was translated to English as by w:Hazel E. Barnes in the 1984 version of
Being and Nothingness
, but was first used in English by w:Helmut Kuhn in his
Encounter with Nothingness
.
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