existentials

Bill Vallicella at the Maverick Philosopher has a nice post on negative existentials, which is exactly right, I think.

Meinongian Objects 2006

Fergit it den, Isle go fer the essentials, yew kin hab all ob de existentials.

LOLZ, Cheezebugers and Naps? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

What it allows us to do is to make sense of cases where we employ nondenoting pronouns in negative existentials, belief reports, and fictional contexts.

Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

The theory of descriptions not only liberates our ontology when we use descriptions in negative existentials and belief reports, but Russell argued that it also can be extended to handle our use of fictional names in those environments.

Descriptions Ludlow, Peter 2007

Analytic negative existentials have contradictory subjects.

Stanisław Leśniewski Simons, Peter 2007

Boss prefers Heidegger's existentials, the things in life that we all have to deal with.

Archive 2007-03-01 enowning 2007

But autistic persons do not have problems with mathematical discourse, or modal discourse, or discourse concerning negative existentials, etc.

Fictionalism Eklund, Matti 2007

Here, with his thrice repeated invocation of the great Hegelian "this", the General switches his propositions from universals to existentials, proving Hegel's thesis that "this" can be anything, anywhere, anytime.

The Real Mission of the Uniformed Ghost at the Border 2006

For the Meinongian solution to negative existentials -- i.e., that there are nonexistent objects independent of thought -- is a very elegant one.

Meinongian Objects 2006

The problem of negative singular existentials is thereby resolved because sentences containing names which appear to be about nonexistent objects are paraphased in terms of sentences involving general terms, quantifiers and uniqueness conditions.

Nonexistent Objects Reicher, Maria 2006