Chen Ku-ying observes that most people stress what is present (" being ") and not what is absent (" nonbeing"), and stress the "full" rather than the "empty," because the usefulness of the absent and the empty is less easily demonstrated.
陳鼓應指出，一般人重「有」不重「無」，重「實」不重「虛」，因為無與虛的作用不易顯示。