Synthese 197 (1):311-335 (2020)
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Natural languages generally distinguishes among different existence predicates for different types of entities, such as English 'exist', 'occur', and 'obtain'. The paper gives an in-depth discussion and analysis of a range of existence predicates in natural language within the general project of descriptive metaphysics, or more specifically ‘natural language ontology’.
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| Keywords | existence intentional object three-dimensionalism natural language ontology |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-018-1847-z |
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