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> Owen wrote:
> IMO, there cannot be a distinction between being and existence.
> Could you further claify what you mean?
There are some thinkers who distinguish between being and existence
(e.g. Meinong and Parsons
[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/#Dis]), but here I side
with David Lewis:
"I do not have the slightest idea what a difference in manner of
existing is supposed to be."
[David Lewis: "On the Plurality of Worlds" (1986), p. 2]
"If you say there is something that exists to a diminished degree, once
you've said 'there is' your game is up. Existence is not some special
distinction that befalls some of the things there are. Existence just
/means/ being one of the things there are, nothing else."
[David Lewis: "Parts of Classes" (1991), p. 80f]
#PH
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