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Can Chaos be coherently conceived as more fundamental than the distinction between being and nothingness?

I’m developing a metaphysical idea in which “Chaos” is not simply disorder or randomness, but an indeterminate condition from which distinctions such as being/non-being, order/disorder, and something/nothing can emerge.
My question is whether this is philosophically coherent. In particular, can something be meaningfully described as prior to the distinction between being and nothingness, or does describing such a “Chaos” already implicitly treat it as some kind of being?
I’m interested in whether there are existing philosophical positions or arguments that address this problem, especially in Nietzsche, Hegel, Heidegger, or other metaphysical traditions.

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