What is the difference between existence and non-existence?

Answer 1

Some people exist, but they are shadows, going through the motions. Other are! Their existence is fleshed out, full of life and vitality. Shadow people go through the motions, the others move and cast shadows as they will. Shadows have a half life. They are almost non-entities.

Answer 2

The difference actually lies within the perception of a person. An idea or a thing exists because one's collective memory has on its file the data to support it and the experience to accept it as true or otherwise. What you call non-existent are the ideas not supported by or compiled anywhere in your databank until you come across these previously unknown concepts which would still has to go through screening process...whether to deny or accept it, nonetheless, the idea will then already qualify as existing. To discuss it further in semantics will be pointless, cause everything else we would say is geared towards the idea of EXISTENCE and technically won't qualify as NON-EXISTENCE. The word NON-EXISTENCE may be the only means we can describe NON-EXISTENCE...so forget about it.

Answer 3

EXISTENCE
There is no universally accepted theory of what the word existence means. The dominant (though by no means universal) view in twentieth-century and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy is that existence is what is asserted by statements of first-order logic of the form "for some x Fx". This agrees with the simple and commonsensical view that, in uttering "There is a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith", or "A bridge crosses the Thames at Hammersmith", one asserts the existence of a bridge across the Thames at Hammersmith. The word "existence", on this view, is simply a way of describing the logical form of ordinary subject-predicate sentence
NON EXISTENCE
MEANS THE THINGS WITH DO NOT EXIST LIKE APES

Answer 4

Existence is simply a way of describing the logical form of ordinary subject-predicate sentence.

its like as if u r able to feel or touch or taste or sense or see that means something is there .... which is present in this world in some form

Non-existence - is term for something that existed before and currently not there or never it existed at all practically and logically...

Answer 5

Non-existence doesn't exist. Existence DOES!

Answer 6

What's the differenc between seeing and being blind? Tasting, and the lack of that option? Feeling and being without? Hearing and being death? Etc...

Answer 7

i think the 'non' makes a very big difference.

Answer 8

One IS and one IS NOT.

Answer 9

u answered the question on ur own

Answer 10

shakespeare answered this way back (or was he facing the same problem). to be or not to be!