The Fragmentation of Being
absolutely and to exist relative to a scheme. Conceptual relativism of this vaguely neo-Kantian variety seems most at home with ...
variably axiomatic. And, if this were the case, we would have a reason to be ontological pluralists. The views that will be disc ...
Any ontology that includes contradictory impossibilia must hold that the topic- neutral logic is paraconsistent. But if we restr ...
further ways forexistenceto show itself as a systematically variably axiomatic feature. We will now look at ontologies that, in ...
However, on Markosian’s view, stuff quantification is not an irreducibly different way of talking about the same things quantifi ...
whereas there is no concrete object (save, perhaps, a divine concrete object, if such a being exists) such that it is necessaril ...
In contemporary circles, a common complaint against possibilism is that actuality and existence are coextensive as a matter of c ...
variably axiomatic. If the existential quantifier in play corresponds to the possibilist mode of being, the following principle ...
substances, and we also must think that any necessarily existing substance is an atemporal being. On the other hand, if we wish ...
same way as an actual donkey exists, then any knowledge of its existence must be via the ways in which we know actual donkeys ex ...
3. Ways of Being and Time 3.1 Introduction In this chapter, we will determine how thinking in terms of modes of being is helpful ...
PEP has a novel name, but it is not a novel view. In an interesting paper on presentism, Simon Keller (2004) alleges that August ...
In section 3.4, I contrast PEP withDegrees Presentism, which is the doctrine that existence comes in degrees, and that past obje ...
eternalist mean different things by“ 9 ,”but it is possible to translate claims made by the presentist into claims acceptable to ...
In each case, the senses I am talking about needn’t be actually realized in ordinary language; they might be merely possible sen ...
Let’s adopt PEP as our canonical formulation of PEP. (After this section, I will drop the asterisk and simply understand PEP as ...
Informally, (e) says that if something becomes past, it will never again be present, whereas (f) says that if something is prese ...
The Meinongian presentist could minimize these differences by holding that the only non-existent objects are past objects. Call ...
zero-temporal distance from the present, has the highest (logically) possible degree of exist- ence.... There is a difference of ...
that are not. If we understand“degree of existence”in my way and Smith’s degree presentism is true, it follows that all facts ab ...
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