Existence as a Real Property The Ontology of Meinongianism
This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy—the concept of existence itself—reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: “
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Nonexistence
The metaphysical condition of having properties is quite separable from the ontological condition of existing. Predication precedes existence. Of course, anything that exists has properties, but this is because having properties is metaphysically utterly unavoidable – in a way that even death and taxes are not. Nathan Salmon, Existence
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