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Absence is not derivative of presence, but instead presence is derivative of absence.

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Absence is something which has no being of any sort and is thus denied of its ontologicity.

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Absence is one half of the fundamental binary opposition (the other half being presence) which characterizes the symbolic order.

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Absence is not nothing... rather it is precisely the presence of the hidden fullness and wealth of what has been... a no-longer, which is, in itself, a not-yet of the veiled arrival of its inexhaustible nature.

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Absence is a genuine absence and not merely an absence of what is present even if what is present is truly absent... it is rather the absence of both absence and presence.