Of particular comparative importance are the following elements. First, in both Montaigne and Zhuangzi one finds a movement away from a certain kind of skepticism towards an identification of the subject with a processual conception of nature. This affords both thinkers, not an indifference towards death, but instead a way of affirming it as necessary. Second, both Montaigne and Zhuangzi reject that entities have discrete essences, and instead argue that indication operates as a function of differentiation. For these reasons I nominate Montaigne’s thought as a resource for anti-ontological thinking within the Western philosophical tradition. In a manner which alienates him somewhat from others within his own intellectual tradition, Montaigne eschews ontological inquiry in favor of an approach to life as it is lived; not as mere being as opposed to non-being, but rather as movement, passing-through, never-being-the-same.