Lexicon of Arguments

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I 158
Existence/Wessel: existence predicate - "E" - then with an empty object: neither s <--P nor s >Existence predicate.
I 332ff
Existence/Wessel: predicate - because of empirical existence - therefore not possible to question:"what is existence?", no examples assignable - (s) because everything is an example - truth: can be defined only by logical means, existence not.
>Definition, >Definability.
I 333
Existence/Wessel: if X is a statement, a predicate term or a relational term, then the question of whether X exists, is meaningless - the possible answers E(X) or ~ E(X) are no statements.
>Levels/order.
Solution:
a) form a subject term "tX": "the statement X" - or
b): "sX": "the fact that X".
I 357f
Object/existence/Wessel: different meanings for singular term, general term, class or individual.
>Singular terms, >General terms, >Classes, >Individuals.
I 358
Individuals/object/Wessel: the term "a is an individual" is synonymous with the term "a is an individual term".
>Existence statements.

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