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Ideas for Marga Reimer, Naguib Mahfouz and Ruth Barcan Marcus

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

10787	Is being just referent of the verb 'to be'? [Marcus (Barcan)]
	Full Idea: Being itself has been viewed as referent of the verb 'to be'.
	From: Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.162)
	A reaction: Not by me! Did we invent the verb 'to be' before it had a referent? Are animals unaware of being?