In The Ways of Naysaying, the third volume in the trilogy dealing with three central human capacities, Eva Brann explores our ability to deny existence, reality, or being. Delving into the various ways of naysaying and their commonalities she notices a willful denial, then a preventive command or prohibition, and ends with nonbeing. If we want to understand something of imagination, memory and time, she argues, we must mount an inquiry into what it means to say something that is not what it claims to be or is not there or is nonexistent or is affected by Nonbeing.