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Re: BEING AND EXISTENCE

Subject: Re: BEING AND EXISTENCE
From: "Paul Holbach"
Date: 31 Oct 2006 05:59:22 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.logic
> Owen wrote:

> There is some x such that it is non-existent, is nonsense at best.

... unless you are able to define "there is" in such a way that it is
ontologically neutral.
I'm afraid I have to admit that such an ontologically non-committing
use is possible:

"There are objects that don't exist"
<->
"One finds objects of thought that don't exist."
"We have objects in mind that don't exist."

#PH


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