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> Nam Nguyen wrote:
> > Paul Holbach wrote:
> > "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."
> I'm afraid further that we couldn't *formally* talk
> about those (objects that don't exist), without some
> distorted description of what they really are.
I think that nonexistent objects aren't really anything.
Pace Meinong, they have neither existence nor essence.
What doesn't exist doesn't have any properties.
We do predicate a lot of things of nonexistents, but the predicates we
ascribe to nonexistents aren't really true of them.
#PH
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