@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 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=220195} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=220195} }