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Existence, philosophy, logic: the fact that there is something to which properties can be attributed. That does not mean that something has to be given immediately or can be perceived by the senses. See also ontology, properties, predicates, existence statements, realism, quantification, ascription._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Logic Texts on Existence - Dictionary of Arguments
Me I 54 Illegal duplication: e.G., the mythical Crete, as different from the Greek Crete, the historical, the European, the remembered Crete. - - - Read III 151f Russell: non-existence: can be expressed this way: "There is no example of the grammatically stated property." >Nonexistence. Read III 154 Existence/Frege: 2nd order property - property of a property: to have an example. >Existence/Frege. Read III 168 Existence/truth/properties/logic/Read: in order to exclude the conclusion from "a is F" to "a exists", we must take the step from the lack of a truth value to falsehood. Problem: unfortunately this criterion makes conclusions become invalid, we would consider to be valid. >Predication, >Copula, >Validity, >Existence statement. _____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Logic Texts Me I Albert Menne Folgerichtig Denken Darmstadt 1988 HH II Hoyningen-Huene Formale Logik, Stuttgart 1998 Re III Stephen Read Philosophie der Logik Hamburg 1997 Sal IV Wesley C. Salmon Logic, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1973 - German: Logik Stuttgart 1983 Sai V R.M.Sainsbury Paradoxes, Cambridge/New York/Melbourne 1995 - German: Paradoxien Stuttgart 2001 Re III St. Read Thinking About Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic. 1995 Oxford University Press German Edition: Philosophie der Logik Hamburg 1997 |