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Herbert McCabe was one of the most original and creative theologians of recent years. Numerous volumes of unpublished typescripts left behind by him have been published following his untimely death in 2001. McCabe was deeply immersed in the philosophical theology of Aquinas and was responsible in part for the notable revival of interest in the thought of Aquinas in our time. Here, he tackles the...

of being cannot be opposed to not being in the sense of being something other than a being. It is extremely easy to fall into the trap of thinking of beings as existing in a sort of space of not-being, but this is an illusion. If we compare the statements ‘I can see trees’ and ‘I can see nothing,’ it is clear that while ‘trees’ serves to signify what can be seen, ‘nothing’ does not have this function. It functions rather in the manner of an adverb than as an object of the verb. Similarly, if we compare
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