For the meontological demon, affirmation is negation, and thinking about its being is the same as thinking about its non-being. This is brought forward with great subtlety in Dante’s Inferno, one of the classic depictions of the demonic. However, there is not simply one type of demon in the Inferno; indeed, the central drama of the Inferno is not good vs. evil, but in the tensions within the Inferno itself.
