The Existence PrincipleSpringer Science & Business Media, 31 de jul. 1998 - 194 pàgines When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have. In this book, this simple requirement is defended and pursued into its various and sometimes surprising implications. In the course of this pursuit, such questions arise as `Do appearances exist?' `Do unknowable things exist?' `Do past and future exist?' `Does God necessarily exist?' This novel and non-technical approach to important philosophical questions will be of interest to senior students of philosophy and, indeed, to all general readers with philosophical interests. |
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A.N. Prior abandon Abstract Particulars accept admit admittedly affairs alleged alternative to existing appearances argument Aristotelian Society avoid basic beliefs Bertrand Russell breach causal challenge Chapter claim concept of existence concerned consider correspondence sense course deny dependent existence Descartes determinate different kinds disjunction distinction distinguished doubt dualism elementary sense entities envisage excluded middle existence principle fact G.E. Moore idea incompatible indeterminacy indeterminate intentional objects ISBN kinds of existence knowledge law of excluded logical mentioned merely metaphor metaphysical theory mind necessary existence necessitated necessity non-existence Norman Malcolm ontological Ontological Argument Oxford particulars and universals past and future perspective Philosophy Plato possible worlds present problem proposition question real existence Realism reality reason reference regarded rejection relation relativism Sect simply existing spatial speak special kind speckles statements suggests temporal tense things and properties thought time-independent trouble true or false truth truth-value vague word
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