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10 de oct. de 2012 · Existence raises deep and important problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Many of the issues can be organized around the following two questions: Is existence a property of individuals? and Assuming that existence is a property of individuals, are there individuals that lack it?
- Mally, Ernst
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- John M. E. McTaggart
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Ontology is the philosophical discipline studying the nature and types of existence. Singular existence is the existence of individual entities while general existence refers to the existence of concepts or universals. Entities present in space and time have concrete existence in contrast to abstract entities, like numbers and sets.
For through existence a thing is understood to be something in the nature of things. Therefore, it is necessary that existence be both something real and intrinsic, that is, within the existing thing itself. For a thing cannot be existing by some extrinsic denomination or some being (ens) of reason.
10 de dic. de 2009 · The first portion of McTaggart’s the Nature of Existence is devoted to showing that either reality and existence are in fact coextensive, or, failing this, that can learn everything important about what is real by studying what exists.
1. Existence as a Second-Order Property and Its Relation to Quantification. The orthodox view of existence, which is influenced by Frege and Quine’s view of existence, is summarized by the following two claims: FQ1 Existence is not a first-order property of individual objects, rather a second-order property.
6 de ene. de 2023 · Existence is a reflexive or relational tension between “facticity” and “transcendence,” where we are constrained by our facticity but simultaneously endowed with the freedom to exceed or transcend it.
The beginning of this study inasmuch has to approach the basic meaning of existence and the very concept of existence by following the guiding principle of its previous clarification in the history of philosophical thinking.
