The Fragmentation of Being

of accounting for the deficiency of the mode of being of almost nothings before
settling on the claim that almost nothings have a lower grade or degree of being than
other objects. I developed a view on which the degree of being of an object is
proportionate to the naturalness of the most natural quantifier that ranges over
that object. Beings by courtesy are those beings for which no fundamental quantifier
ranges over them. Almost nothings are species of beings by courtesy, but I also
discussed whether other kinds of objects might be as well.

BEING AND ALMOST NOTHINGNESS 