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| Feb 24 at 13:44 | comment | added | Chris Degnen | @user76284 This is from Kant's: "A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars." A599/B627 So if someone dreams up X = a red circular table, then if someone makes an actual red circular table it doesn't change what X is. | |
| Jan 16 at 18:20 | comment | added | user76284 | "existence is not a predicate" Of course it is. Of course saying "X exists" and "X does not exist" are both meaningful. To say otherwise means one has forgotten how ordinary language works. | |
| Aug 22, 2020 at 16:12 | history | answered | Nelson Alexander | CC BY-SA 4.0 |