Lexicon of Arguments

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I 423f
Unrealized possibilities: e.g. the different kinds of possible hotels on the corner: no identity by localization - they are at most universals.
III 259
Possibility/possible objects/actual/real/Quine: some are of the opinion that there are concrete individuals of two species:
a) real (actual)
b) unreal (not actual).
QuineVs: this overpopulates the universe.
(s) Problem: should one then say "not real Zerberus is real", or "the real Zerberus is not real"? For it would be too much to want to say "the unreal Zerberus is not real". At most, a representative could invoke that "not really Zerberus" is already a double.
III 260
Not actual/Possibility/Quine: the trick here depends on the concept of the possible.
QuineVs: but this is not possible for more complicated cases. Example "the round pyramid of Copilco": is completely impossible ((s) not updatable).
Non-existence/possibility/meaning/significance/Quine: wrong solution: some authors think that a word for a completely impossible object is meaningless.
Analogue: just as a logically unrealizable sentence is a non sentence, is not false but meaningless. ((s) (here sic, but otherwise mostly called senseless.)
>Meaning/Quine.
QuineVs: 1. this is unnatural. 2. it is also impractical. Then we no longer have a test procedure for significance, just as the quantifier logic has no decision procedure for universality and satisfiability. >Satisfaction/Quine.
Solution/Quine: it is sufficient that words have the task of designating something. This is sufficient to express non-existence. The words have a full meaning.
>Designation/Quine.
VI 102
Necessity/Possibility/Quine: are intensional in that they do not conform to the substitutability of identity. Again fluctuating between de re and de dicto.
>de re/Quine, >de dicto/Quine.
VII (h) 148
Necessity/possibility/Quine: is not a general feature of the objects concerned but depends on the way of reference.
>Necessity/Quine.

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