Quantifiers and existence

V Cantero-Flores - Principia: an international journal of …, 2024 - dialnet.unirioja.es
There are some sentences that include expressions that refer to entities that do not exist.
One example is this: Mary is in terror of werewolves. Some argue that this sentence cannot …

[BOOK][B] A Study on Existence: Two Approaches and a Deflationist Compromise

G Bacigalupo - 2017 - books.google.com
The problem of existence is reputed to be one of the oldest and most intractable problems of
philosophy: what do we mean when we say that something exists or, even more …

[PDF][PDF] Whose Existence? A Deflationist Compromise to the Fregean/Neo-Meinongian Divide

G Bacigalupo - Argumenta, 2016 - argumenta.org
The dispute between the Fregean and the Neo-Meinongian approach to existence has
become entrenched: it seems that nothing but intuitions may be relied upon to decide the …