Single Idea 16439

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 1. Nature of Existence]

Full Idea

A nominalist definition of existence is 'having spatio-temporal location'.

Gist of Idea

A nominalist view says existence is having spatio-temporal location

Source

Robert C. Stalnaker (Mere Possibilities [2012], 1.1)

Book Reference

Stalnaker,Robert C.: 'Mere Possibilities' [Princeton 2012], p.4


A Reaction

This would evidently be physicalist as well as nominalist. Presumably it fits the 'mosaic' of reality Lewis refers to. I find this view sympathetic. A process of abstraction is required to get the rest of the stuff we talk about.