| 期刊全稱 | A Paradigm Theory of Existence | | 期刊簡(jiǎn)稱 | Onto-Theology Vindic | | 影響因子2023 | William F. Vallicella | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/142/141624/141624.mp4 | | 發(fā)行地址 | Includes supplementary material: | | 學(xué)科分類 | Philosophical Studies Series | | 圖書封面 |  | | 影響因子 | The heart of philosophy is metaphysics, and at the heart of the heart lie two questions about existence. What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? Call these the nature question and the ground question, respectively. The first concerns the nature of the existence of the contingent existent; the second concerns the ground of the contingent existent. Both questions are ancient, and yet perennial in their appeal; both have presided over the burial of so many of their would-be undertakers that it is a good induction that they will continue to do so. For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. Ask Willard Quine what existence is, and you will hear that "Existence is what existential quantification expresses. "! Ask Bertrand Russell what it is for an individual to exist, and he will tell you that an individual can no more exist than it can be numerous: there 2 just is no such thing as the existence of individuals. And of course Russell‘s eliminativist answer implies that one cannot even ask, on pain of succumbing to the fallacy of complex question, why any contingent | | Pindex | Book 2002 |
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