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Terence Parsons (1939), American philosopher. His major works include Nonexistent Objects (1980), Events in the Semantics of English: A Study in the Semantics of Time and Tense (1990), and The Structure of Event Semantics (1994). His fields of specialization are philosophy of language, metaphysics, semantics, and logic.
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Non-existence, philosophy: non-existence is not simply expressible for the classical predicate logic which attributes properties through quantification in the form of (Ex)(Fx) "There is at least one x, with the property F" (in short "There is at least one F"), since existence is not a property. The form "There is at least one x that does not exist" is contradictory. See also existence predicate, "There is", existence, unicorn example, pegasus example, round square, proof of God's existence._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Adorno, Th.W. | Non-Existence | Adorno | |
Armstrong, David M. | Non-Existence | Armstrong | |
Boer, Steven E. | Non-Existence | Boer | |
Brandom, Robert | Non-Existence | Brandom | |
Chisholm, Roderick | Non-Existence | Chisholm | |
d’Abro, A. | Non-Existence | d’Abro | |
Field, Hartry | Non-Existence | Field | |
Foucault, Michel | Non-Existence | Foucault | |
Fraassen, Bas van | Non-Existence | Fraassen | |
Frege, Gottlob | Non-Existence | Frege | |
Hintikka, Jaakko | Non-Existence | Hintikka | |
Meinong, Alexius | Non-Existence | Meinong | |
Millikan, Ruth | Non-Existence | Millikan | |
Montague, Richard | Non-Existence | Montague | |
Parsons, Terence | Non-Existence | Parsons | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Non-Existence | Quine | |
Rorty, Richard | Non-Existence | Rorty | |
Stalnaker, Robert | Non-Existence | Stalnaker | |
Strawson, Peter F. | Non-Existence | Strawson | |
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