ON WHAT THERE IS

Author: GOLDSTICK, D.

Source: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2005 , pp. 313-320(8)

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Abstract:

This paper programmatically outlines a case for “nominalism”. If brown and colored are so related logically that being colored is nothing over and above being brown, then whatever “exists”other than concreta is nothing over and above concreta. Possibilities of rain and “universals” like the shape, circularity (= the logical possibility of being so shaped), lack “existence” in another sense. (“There are things that don't exist” shows that ‘there are’ is used even more broadly than ‘there exist’.) The univocity of ‘exist’ is disproved by “A prime number between 6 and 10 exists” being analytic despite the invalidity of ontological arguments.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00229.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy University of Toronto

Publication date: 2005-09-01