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> 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."
If the existential quantifier is allowed to range over the domain of
all objects, be they existent or not, possible or not, then it is not
nonsensical at all to say that a particular element of that domain does
not exist.
Of course, such an ontologically neutral quantifier shouldn't be called
"existential quantifier" any longer but "particular quantifier".
#PH
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