Modes of Being and Quantification
Abstract
If Pegasus existed, he would indeed be in space and time, but only because the word ‘Pegasus’ has spatio-temporal connotations, and not because ‘exists’ has spatio-temporal connotations. If spatio-temporal reference is lacking when we affirm the existence of the cube root of 27, that is simply because a cube root is not a spatio-temporal kind of thing.
Language: English, Portuguese
Page range: 1 - 24
Submitted on: Oct 15, 2013
Accepted on: Oct 15, 2013
Published on: Dec 31, 2018
Published by: University of Lisbon
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