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Ideas for 'works', 'Locke on Essences and Kinds' and 'Identity and Existence in Logic'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

18769	Do mathematicians use 'existence' differently when they say some entity exists? [Anderson,CA]
	Full Idea: A cursory examination shows that mathematicians have no aversion to saying that this-or-that mathematical entity exists. But is this a different sense of 'existence'?
	From: C. Anthony Anderson (Identity and Existence in Logic [2014], 2.6)
	A reaction: For those of us like me and my pal Quine who say that 'exist' is univocal (i.e. only one meaning), this is a nice challenge. Quine solves it by saying maths concerns sets of objects. I, who don't like sets, am puzzled (so I turn to fictionalism...).