In this chapter, I analyze the use of the word “exist” and its inflections in the confines of the conception of language as a system of coordinates. My analysis shows that the concept of existence does not refer to an ordinary property, but rather affirms the actualization of one of the conceptual possibilities that are included in a conceptual scheme. This chapter concludes that only what is described by contingent propositions can be meaningfully said to exist.

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The Meaning of Existence

  • Gal Yehezkel

摘要

In this chapter, I analyze the use of the word “exist” and its inflections in the confines of the conception of language as a system of coordinates. My analysis shows that the concept of existence does not refer to an ordinary property, but rather affirms the actualization of one of the conceptual possibilities that are included in a conceptual scheme. This chapter concludes that only what is described by contingent propositions can be meaningfully said to exist.