Existence - Modern approaches to the problem - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Existence: Encyclopedia - Existence
There is no universally accepted theory of what the word existence means. The dominant (though by no means universal) view in twentieth-c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existence: Encyclopedia Ii - Existence - Modern Approaches To The Problem
The problem is then evaded as follows. "Pegasus flies" implies existence in the wide sense, for it implies that something flies. But it d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existence: Encyclopedia Ii - Existence - Earlier Views
The first comprehensive treatment of the subject was by Aristotle in the Metaphysics. He developed a complicated theory of being, accordi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existence: Encyclopedia Ii - Existence - The Problems Of Existence
1. The first problem is that, on the simple view above, any sentence of apparently subject-predicate form "S is P" must assert the existe...   » Read the article