14874 | Anaximander saw the contradiction in the world - that its own qualities destroy it [Anaximander, by Nietzsche] |
481 | Nothing is created or destroyed; there is only mixing and separation [Anaxagoras] |
14028 | Nothing comes to be from what doesn't exist [Epicurus] |
14029 | If disappearing things went to nothingness, nothing could return, and it would all be gone by now [Epicurus] |
23634 | Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence [Reid] |
4475 | Saying a thing 'is' adds nothing to it - otherwise if my concept exists, it isn't the same as my concept [Kant] |
11008 | Existence is not a first-order property, but the instantiation of a property [Frege, by Read] |
8643 | Affirmation of existence is just denial of zero [Frege] |
14463 | Existence can only be asserted of something described, not of something named [Russell] |
13133 | The world is facts, not things. Facts determine the world, and the world divides into facts [Wittgenstein] |
16434 | Some say what exists must do so, and nothing else could possible exist [Stalnaker] |
16439 | A nominalist view says existence is having spatio-temporal location [Stalnaker] |
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
6070 | Existence is a primary quality, non-existence a secondary quality [McGinn] |
12214 | 'Exists' is a predicate, not a quantifier; 'electrons exist' is like 'electrons spin' [Fine,K] |
10279 | Can we discover whether a deck is fifty-two cards, or a person is time-slices or molecules? [Shapiro] |
8321 | All possible worlds contain abstracta (e.g. numbers), which means they contain concrete objects [Lowe] |
9427 | For Humeans the world is a world primarily of events [Mumford] |
19659 | The absolute is the impossibility of there being a necessary existent [Meillassoux] |
18740 | If 'exist' doesn't express a property, we can hardly ask for its essence [Horsten/Pettigrew] |
19034 | The world is either a whole made of its parts, or a container which contains its parts [Vetter] |