... against it depends on what version of the doctrine is at issue. The metaontological significance of the different versions of the doctrine is also assessed. Roughly, quantifier variance concerns there being different possible existential quantifier meanings, and often the doctrine involves a claim...

... and Thomasson's theories are, in a sense, in substantial agreement with this article's; they differ from this one in being much more specific about the metaphysical nature of fictional characters. A non-Meinongian theory of fiction (that is, a theory of fiction that allows only one sort of existential quantifier...

...This book presents and defends a large number of theses in ontology and meta-ontology. The meta-ontological theses are broadly Quinean: that existence or being is what is expressed by the existential quantifier of formal logic; that the variables the quantifiers bind are essentially third-person...

... of being that informs the way beings are understood, even the existential quantifier is not neutral. It too is an (implicit) concept of being, conferring certain characteristics to what can be counted as existing (i.e. as being). change stability terminology being dynamic ontologies ontology...

...s’ means that not everything is not an X. (iv) The single sense of ‘there is’ and ‘exists’ is adequately captured by the existential quantifier of formal logic. The variables bound by the existential quantifier are essentially third-person-singular pronouns. (v) The “ontological...

... classifiers modification number topic manner adverb conventionalized meaning topicalization discourse referentiality specificity scope inertness syntactic reconstruction semantic reconstruction Neo-Davidsonian event semantics existential quantifier One of the positive properties in which pseudo...

... of modern logic, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell, that existence isn’t a first-order property possessed by individuals, but rather a second-order property expressed by the existential quantifier. Russell in 1905 combined this doctrine with his new theory of descriptions and declared the paradox...

... of existence make‐believe cognitive acts of negative existential Hume David Cogito imperceptibility essentialism God Ontological Argument OA Satan cogito essentialism existence existential quantifier ontological argument predication quantification Russell Consider these sentences: ‘Bill...