Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Slavoj Zizek, Shaughan Lavine and Willard Quine

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

10241

For Quine, there is only one way to exist [Quine, by Shapiro]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / b. Being and existence

16966

Philosophers tend to distinguish broad 'being' from narrower 'existence' - but I reject that [Quine]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being

4064	The idea of a thing and the idea of existence are two sides of the same coin [Quine, by Crane]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

1633	Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine]

19277

Quine rests existence on bound variables, because he thinks singular terms can be analysed away [Quine, by Hale]

16965

All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine]