13221 | Existence is either potential or actual [Aristotle] |
568 | Some things exist as substances, others as properties of substances [Aristotle] |
16588 | I prefer a lack of form to mean non-existence, than to think of some quasi-existence [Augustine] |
16664 | Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony] |
17174 | Outside the mind, there are just things and their properties [Spinoza] |
17176 | The more reality a thing has, the more attributes it has [Spinoza] |
21291 | There is no medium state between existence and non-existence [Hume] |
4168 | Matter and intellect are inseparable correlatives which only exist relatively, and for each other [Schopenhauer] |
19470 | Thoughts in the 'third realm' cannot be sensed, and do not need an owner to exist [Frege] |
10241 | For Quine, there is only one way to exist [Quine, by Shapiro] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |
10470 | There are only two kinds: sets, and possibilia (actual and possible particulars) [Lewis, by Oliver] |
15520 | Existence doesn't come in degrees; once asserted, it can't then be qualified [Lewis] |
15789 | Lewis's distinction of 'existing' from 'being actual' is Meinong's between 'existing' and 'subsisting' [Lycan on Lewis] |
12620 | If 'exist' is ambiguous in 'chairs and numbers exist', that mirrors the difference between chairs and numbers [Fodor] |
13884 | The idea that 'exist' has multiple senses is not coherent [Wright,C] |
15078 | There are levels of existence, as well as reality; objects exist at the lowest level in which they can function [Fine,K] |
18769 | Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists? [Anderson,CA] |