Existence as a first-order predicate: Themes from Mirdamad

Asian Philosophy 31 (4):353-367 (2021)
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Mirdamad, a prominent philosopher of the Late Medieval Period active in the Islamic world, regards existence as nothing in reality. In this paper, I employ methods devised by contemporary analytic...

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10.1080/09552367.2021.1928201

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