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Ontology is the study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.
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Is the word "I" a dangling linguistic pointer with no actual referent?
Well, if utter the word 'I', it's quite clear what it refers to: sequitur. If I utter 'I am', it's also quite clear what I say with my utterance: something that is true iff sequitur exists. On the ot …
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Qs about interpretations on Parmenides's claim
I think one can read Parmenides's claim as saying that intentional properties (being thought about etc.) are existence entailing. So your first construal of that claim is quite right. But notice that …
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Is composition more than the composite parts
The answer to your question depends on how one spells out certain supplementation intuitions about composites. This can be done in precise terms in mereology, a theory (or rather class of theories) de …
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What do we mean by the symbolic representation of nothing?
The lesson that should be drawn from what you say is that 'nothing' is not a referring term, but a quantifier. If you want to assign a separate semantic value to 'nothing' over some domain, D, take th …
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