Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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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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Strawson, Peter F.   Books on Amazon	Existence	Meg I 312 Existence / Strawson / Hungerland: existence does not follow from speech, it is presupposed in the speech. - If there is no reference, a statement is neither true nor false. Strawson VII 96 ~ Existence / Russell / Strawson: only if a sentence really has subject-predicate form, the existence is guaranteed - therefore only logical proper names such as "the" are real names: existence is guaranteed by acquaintance. VII 102 StrawsonVsRussell: only complete sentences can be true / false - pointless to say "the present King" was needed "as the expression" to make a false statement - A sentence always remains the same - statement and assertion: change over time. _____________ 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.	Str I P.F. Strawson Einzelding und logisches Subjekt Stuttgart 1972 Str IV P.F. Strawson Analyse und Metaphysik München 1994 Str V P.F. Strawson Die Grenzen des Sinns Frankfurt 1981

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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-07-22