The Fragmentation of Being
2. A Return to the Analogy of Being 2.1 Introduction In the history of philosophy, the question of whether there are ways of bei ...
This way of thinking presupposes a kind of realism about properties and relations. (How strong is this realism? We’ll return to ...
structural relations to each other.^3 These specifications are such that, among them, one is the central specification and the o ...
For example, if necessarily everything were located in space–time, then being spatiotemporally located would be classified as a ...
view might be defended by appealing to considerations about the different ways in which objects and events have parts or persist ...
is an analogous feature, but the explanation of why parthood is analogous will leave open whether the more natural (and more top ...
disjunction of these analogue instances would. For example, consider that the salient relation between the kind of healthiness e ...
first-order logic. On this thesis, if you want to know what“existence”means, you need to study the logic of quantification.^11 R ...
turns on whatever differences there might be between concepts, propositional func- tions, or properties, let’s focus on the view ...
condition: (iii) each of the Gs applies to fewer kinds of things than F.^18 The putatively analogous features of interest to ont ...
to suspect that the more natural features are the topic-specific features defined on individual categories. Change of adicitycon ...
parthood applies to facts: neither universal composition nor extensionality hold.^23 So the“logic”of the topic-neutral parthood ...
natural. In either case, insofar as we hold that there is any unity to the feature at all, we will be under pressure to hold tha ...
Could we learn something similar aboutexistence? We can wrap our heads around the idea that existence is a property (eitherfirst ...
now it suffices to note that at the very least it is open to the endurantist to say that material objects endure in any world in ...
first-order properties of individuals. More on this momentarily.) Sinceexistenceon this view is systematically variably polyadic ...
Does talk of relative and non-relative modes of being commit us to thinking of modes asfirst-order properties? No. Talk of one-p ...
The second mode of existence recognized by this view isabsolute being, the kind enjoyed by substances. The logical form of this ...
distinction in modes of being it serves to mark. The terminology continued to be in currency even in the twentieth century, in w ...
existence-full-stop and existence-at-a-time, then we should ask ourselves whether there are worlds in which substances enjoy mer ...
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