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Ontological and metaphysical questions about the study of existence, being and the structure of reality.
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Why does existential quantification appear to be predicative?
I'm faced with existence questions all the time. "Casper is a friendly ghost", can be formulated in free logic. In first order logic you have a problem. … So as Bumble said, in free logic existence is a property that Casper may or may not have, but in first order logic all constants in the language denote. …
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Do meanings of statements exist?
It was suggested to me in another thread that materialism is self defeating. But when I looked at the reason for that statement I found confusion in the argument.
(4) MATERIALISM
[Definition] The do …
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What is the meaning of existence? [closed]
What is the meaning of the word 'exist'?
Its etymology reveals it's derived from two Latin words:
ex = from + ist = is
Thus, its inventor intended it to mean from is.
What did the inventor of the wo …
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What are some logically equivalent formulations of “uniqueness”?
As far as I have seen, the ubiquitous way of proving “x has property P uniquely” in mathematics is by showing “if there was some other y which also had property P, it would follow necessarily that y …
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Does the statement "only matter exists" denote a false proposition or a true proposition? [closed]
"Only matter exists" means
∃ x[x exists] ∧ ∀ x[x exists → x is matter]
Then for the meaning of existence, I offer the following definition:
Definition
x exists if and only if x is in the current moment …
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