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   Dec 31, 2022 · The state of being or occurring is referred to as existence, whereas non-existence is the absence of being or occurrence. Something cannot be both existing and non-existing at the same time because the two states are mutually exclusive.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eternal_oblivionEternal oblivion - Wikipedia

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   Eternal oblivion (also referred to as non-existence or nothingness) [1] [2] is the philosophical, religious, or scientific concept of one's consciousness forever ceasing upon death. Pamela Health and Jon Klimo write that this concept is mostly associated with religious skepticism , secular humanism , nihilism , agnosticism , and atheism . [ 3 ]

3. plato.stanford.edu › archIves › spr2010Nothingness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Aug 28, 2003 · Most contemporary philosophers feel entitled to postulate whatever entities are indispensable to their best explanations of well accepted phenomena. They feel the presumption of non-existence is only plausible for particular existence claims.

4. link.springer.com › article › 10What is the Problem of Non-Existence? | Philosophia - Springer

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   Jan 3, 2012 · The correct position is that some simple claims about non-existents are true and some are false, just as some simple claims about existents are true and some are false. A solution to the problem of non-existence must state general reasons which will enable us to say when a predication of something of a non-existent is true, and when it is false.

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5. iep.utm.edu › metaphysics-of-nothingThe Metaphysics of Nothing - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Lumped into these two theoretical categories are the related positions of referring to a non-existing thing and the failure to refer to any thing at all (which whilst there are important variations, there are illuminating similarities that justify their shared treatment).

6. academic.oup.com › book › 82481 The Problem of Non-Existence - Oxford Academic

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   The problem of non-existence is that there are genuine truths about non-existent intentional objects, but truth is dependent on how things are in reality, and reality only contains what exists. This chapter defends the assumptions that give rise to this problem.

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   What is the difference between existence and non-existence?

   • The state of being or occurring is referred to as existence, whereas non-existence is the absence of being or occurrence. Something cannot be both existing and non-existing at the same time because the two states are mutually exclusive. Something cannot exist and not exist at the same time because this would involve a contradiction.

   existence - What does it mean to exist and not exist? Is it possible to

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   Is existence a property of individuals?

   • If the abundant conception is true, then our first question may seem trivial: Existence is a property of individuals because sentences like ‘Bill Gates exists’ are grammatical and there is a class of all individuals and hence a corresponding property of existing.

   Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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   Is there a difference between being and existence?

   • So saying this is distinguishing between being and existence. But (the objection runs) the distinction between being and existence is merely verbal. So ‘there are things which do not exist’ is contradictory—meaning either ‘there are things which there are not’ or ‘there exist things which do not exist’.

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   Is there a non-verbal difference between being and existence?

   • This line of thought derives of course from Quine (1948), and the idea that there is no non-verbal difference between being and existence is described by Peter van Inwagen as ‘the essence of Quine’s philosophy of being and existence’ (2008: 37).

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   Are the claims about the non-existent negative existentials?

   • Now the problem is that the claims about the non-existent are not simply (true) negative existentials, or (false) existential claims. Saying something truly about the non-existent is not always a case of saying ‘of what does not exist that it does not exist’.

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   Is existence a property of an object?

   • As all of our contentful ideas derive from impressions, Hume concluded that existence is not a separate property of an object. Kant’s criticism of the ontological arguments for the existence of God rested on a rejection of the claim that existence is a property of an object.

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8. plato.stanford.edu › entries › existenceExistence - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Oct 10, 2012 · Existence raises deep and important problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Many of the issues can be organized around the following two questions: Is existence a property of individuals? and Assuming that existence is a property of individuals, are there individuals that lack it?