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Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity are its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one does not know whether the entity exists.
28 lug 2006 · The nature of existence : McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, 1866-1925 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. McTaggart, John McTaggart Ellis, 1866-1925; Broad, C. D. (Charlie Dunbar), 1887-1971; Frye, Northrop. Publication date. 1921-1927. Topics. Ontology, Reality. Publisher. Cambridge, Eng. : University Press. Collection.
10 ott 2012 · Existence raises deep and important problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Many of the issues can be organized around the following two questions: Is existence a property of individuals? and Assuming that existence is a property of individuals, are there individuals that lack it?
6 gen 2023 · Existence Precedes Essence: Existentialists forward a novel conception of the self not as a substance or thing with some pre-given nature (or “essence”) but as a situated activity or way of being whereby we are always in the process of making or creating who we are as our life unfolds.
10 dic 2009 · John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart, henceforth simply “McTaggart”, was one of the most important systematic metaphysicians of the early 20 th century. His greatest work is The Nature of Existence, the first volume of which was published in 1921 while the second volume was published posthumously in 1927 with C.D. Broad as the editor ...
- John Ellis McTaggart
- 1921
Existence, in metaphysics, that which applies neutrally to all and only those things that are real. Metaphysicians have had a great deal to say about the existence or nonexistence of various things or categories of things, such as God, the soul, a mind-independent or external world, abstract or
Now, according to some analytic philosophers, the fact that existence is systematically variably polyadic should nudge us to believe that material objects have one mode of existence (let’s say existence-at) and space-time regions have another mode of existence (let’s say simply-existence).
