The Fragmentation of Being

claim) is if they have possible duplicates that are grounded. But here is an argument for the claim that all duplicates of ungro ...

essentialist fact is syntactic garbage. (We discussed a similar view about grounding facts as well in section 8.2.) In general, ...

itself. For being you is not being musical; for you are not musical in virtue of yourself. What, then, you are in virtue of your ...

additional ontic grounds for Descartes’essence. This suggests to me that, by Des- cartes’lights, Descartes himself is his own ul ...

Note that it does not follow from these assumptions that the substantial form ofx exists only in worlds in whichxexists. If form ...

The second possibility is that none of the forms individually is the ontic ground of her essences, but collectively they all are ...

we can in some sense distinguish different ideas in the mind of God but the distinctions we draw are mere distinctions of reason ...

Earlier, I suggested thatformis a traditional candidate for an ontic essence. But interestingly some advocates of substantial fo ...

On this view, there is a distinction between essence and existence in creatures, and a creature’s existence seems to be continge ...

Heidegger (1962: 67) claimed that“The‘essence’of Dasein lies in its existence.” Heidegger interpretation is always dangerous, bu ...

from the metaphysician’s perspective, the better expression to employ because it is the more metaphysically natural expression. ...

Alternatively, we could take this observation as motivating Haugeland’s (2013) interpretation of Heidegger, according to which t ...

version of that argument, based on remarks in Descartes’Fifth Meditation.^84 Premise 1: I have a clear and distinct idea of God. ...

God implies that God necessarily exists if he possibly exists. Conclusion: so God necessarily exists. If premise 3 of thefirst C ...

fail to have being, not what each object essentially is.^90 If a property characterizes an object only if it instantiates that p ...

hold that the distinction between essence and existence in things is a merely conceptual distinction should consider this view s ...

some sense among that strict essence? If the strict essence of an object is its existence, can its existence also ground its str ...

Here is a hypothesis: specific facts about the essences of specific individuals are never brute but are always partially grounde ...

essences of sets are grounded in a similar way. In turn, the generalization that all sets essentially have their members is full ...

being: the possible and the actual both exist, but in different ways. Any merely possible thing could have been actual,and many ...