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Kit Fine

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199278701

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2006

DOI: 10.1093/0199278709.001.0001

Necessity and Non‐Existence

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(p. 321 ) 9 Necessity and Non‐Existence
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Modality and Tense
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Kit Fine (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/0199278709.003.0010

It is argued that just as there is a distinction between tensed and tenseless sentences so is there a distinction between worldly and unworldly sentences. This distinction has important implications for questions of possible non-existence, the nature of sortal concepts, such as man or set, and the different ways in which an object might exist.

Keywords:   existence, identity, modality, sort, tense, transcendence, truth, worldly

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