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Ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Intellectual Autobiography' and 'talk'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

12408	Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please... [Sommers,W]
	Full Idea: Sartre to Waitress: Coffee with no cream, please. Waitress: Sorry, we're out of cream; would no milk do?
	From: Will Sommers (talk [2019])

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

18900	Unfortunately for realists, modern logic cannot say that some fact exists [Sommers]
	Full Idea: Unfortunately for the fate of realist philosophy, modern logic's treatment of 'exists' is resolutely inhospitable to facts as referents of phrases of the form 'the existence or non-existence of φ'.
	From: Fred Sommers (Intellectual Autobiography [2005], 'Realism')
	A reaction: Predicate logic has to talk about objects, and then attribute predicates to them. It tends to treat a fact as 'Fa' - this object has this predicate, but that's not really how we understand facts.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

12397	Said Plato: 'The things that we feel... [Sommers,W]
	Full Idea: Said Plato: 'The things that we feel/ Are not ontologically real,/ But just the excrescence/ Of numinous essence/ Our senses can never reveal.' [Basil Ransome-Davis]
	From: Will Sommers (talk [2019])