7022 | To be is to have a capacity, to act on other things, or to receive actions [Plato] |
527 | Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios] |
20860 | Whatever participates in substance exists [Zeno of Citium, by Stobaeus] |
5992 | Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman] |
16660 | Are things distinct if they are both separate, or if only one of them can be separate? [Duns Scotus, by Pasnau] |
12554 | Existences can only be known by experience [Locke] |
19393 | What is not active is nothing [Leibniz] |
3952 | I know that nothing inconsistent can exist [Berkeley] |
18995 | Frege mistakenly takes existence to be a property of concepts, instead of being about things [Frege, by Yablo] |
18899 | Frege takes the existence of horses to be part of their concept [Frege, by Sommers] |
18521 | The criterion of existence is the possibility of action [Santayana] |
14173 | What exists has causal relations, but non-existent things may also have them [Russell] |
3534 | To be is to have causal powers [Alexander,S] |
7680 | Ontology is possible only as phenomenology [Heidegger] |
24189 | The criterion of the real is contradictions [Weil] |
16965 | All we have of general existence is what existential quantifiers express [Quine] |
19277 | Quine rests existence on bound variables, because he thinks singular terms can be analysed away [Quine, by Hale] |
1633 | Absolute ontological questions are meaningless, because the answers are circular definitions [Quine] |
9811 | It is of the essence of being to appear [Badiou] |
14746 | What exists can't depend on our conceptual scheme, and using all conceptual schemes is too liberal [Sider on Wiggins] |
6062 | Existence can't be analysed as instantiating a property, as instantiation requires existence [McGinn] |
6065 | We can't analyse the sentence 'something exists' in terms of instantiated properties [McGinn] |
12216 | Real objects are those which figure in the facts that constitute reality [Fine,K] |
12218 | Being real and being fundamental are separate; Thales's water might be real and divisible [Fine,K] |
8300 | Perhaps possession of causal power is the hallmark of existence (and a reason to deny the void) [Lowe] |
4768 | The 'epistemic fallacy' is inferring what does exist from what can be known to exist [Psillos] |
12447 | That all existents have causal powers is unknowable; the claim is simply an epistemic one [Azzouni] |
9501 | If all existents are causally active, that excludes abstracta and causally isolated objects [Bird] |
18480 | Maybe it only exists if it is a truthmaker (rather than the value of a variable)? [MacBride] |
19654 | We must give up the modern criterion of existence, which is a correlation between thought and being [Meillassoux] |
14942 | Only admit into ontology what is explanatory and predictive [Ladyman/Ross] |
14948 | To be is to be a real pattern [Ladyman/Ross] |
14493 | Existence might require playing a role in explanation, or in a causal story, or being composed in some way [Thomasson] |
18917 | Existence and nonexistence are characteristics of the world, not of objects [Engelbretsen] |