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| Jun 25, 2023 at 5:11 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | There are 30-odd subsections in the SEP article on quantification, I don't remember how many subsections in the articles on existence, nonexistent objects, possible objects, possible worlds, impossible worlds, modal epistemology, etc. I'm not sure most people share too much of a single concept of existence. And as for a person's height, IDK, that seems questionable re: its objective stability, too. | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 4:59 | comment | added | user62907 | That just gets to a deeper question of what “existence” actually means. But setting aside that, most of us have a similar conception of what that means. Something either exists in reality or it doesn’t. I am either 6 feet tall or not. I think you’re being overly pedantic here | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 4:57 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | One option is that the concept of existence itself, by itself, makes no sense. Or then we might "paraphrase away" all existence-talk. Or perhaps there are multiple concepts behind words like "not," and there can be true contradictions "A and not-A" depending on which kind of "not" we are using. And so on and on. | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 4:14 | comment | added | user62907 | What would be the third option? | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 0:00 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | The actuality of some X implying the possibility of that X is not very controversial, to my knowledge. Kant was rather skeptical of modal claims going beyond such an implication, no less. So it seems as if humans don't merely exist or fail to exist. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 23:34 | history | answered | user62907 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |