@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Tugendhat, E.},
subject = {Existence Statements},
note = {I 462f
Identification/Tugendhat: Spatial and temporal relation between objects are not sufficient for identification. - There are infinitely many spacetime places, but only finitely many objects. The spacetime system is presupposed.
>Space, >Time, >Spacetime.
Reference to spacetime places cannot fail. - Speech of existence without place is meaningless - identification only by simultaneous reference to all other (possible) objects - therefore existential propositions are general.
>Identification, >Reference.
I 462
Identification/Tugendhat: It is not enough to speak of spatial or temporal relations between extended objects.
Once the system of spatiotemporal relations is constituted, an infinite ordered multiplicity of space- and time-places has become distinguishable and identifiable. Only some of them are congruent with the extensions of the sortally determined objects.
>Sortals, >Objects.
I 463
Finitely many objects, infinitely many space-time places.
Identification presupposes this system of space-time places. The reference to these places cannot fail.
I 464
Existence/Tugendhat: The talk of the existence of a single object has no sense at all, because it has no place in the system.
I 466
But the identification is also not made possible by the pointing localizing reference, but by the simultaneous reference to all other possible objects. Therefore existential propositions are generally!
>Ostension, >Pointing, >Definition, >Ostensive Definition.},
note = { Tu I E. Tugendhat Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Sprachanalytische Philosophie Frankfurt 1976 Tu II E. Tugendhat Philosophische Aufsätze Frankfurt 1992
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