Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Anaximander, Gottlob Frege and David E. Cooper
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence
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Anaximander saw the contradiction in the world - that its own qualities destroy it [Anaximander, by Nietzsche]
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Affirmation of existence is just denial of zero [Frege]
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Existence is not a first-order property, but the instantiation of a property [Frege, by Read]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence
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Thoughts in the 'third realm' cannot be sensed, and do not need an owner to exist [Frege]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being
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Frege's logic showed that there is no concept of being [Frege, by Scruton]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence
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If abstracta are non-mental, quarks are abstracta, and yet chess and God's thoughts are mental [Rosen on Frege]
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The equator is imaginary, but not fictitious; thought is needed to recognise it [Frege]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
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Frege takes the existence of horses to be part of their concept [Frege, by Sommers]
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Frege mistakenly takes existence to be a property of concepts, instead of being about things [Frege, by Yablo]
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