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Are there nonexistent objects? Can we make sense of objects having properties without thinking that there are nonexistent objects? Is existence a predicate? Can we make sense of necessarily existing objects depending on God? Tackling these central questions, Matthew Davidson explores the metaphysics of existence and nonexistence. He presents an extended argument for independence actualism, a previously undefended view that objects can have properties in worlds and at times at which they do not exist. Among other unique points of discussion, Davidson considers the nature of actualism, arguments for and against serious actualism, the semantics of “exists” as a predicate, the merits of different sorts of Meinongian theories, and different views on which God might ground the existence of necessarily existing abstracta. The book offers a Lewisian-style argument for adopting independence actualism in that the view may be used to solve many problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language and philosophy of religion.

Existence (philosophie) --- Absence et présence. --- Prédicat (logique) --- Métaphysique. --- Metaphysics --- Existentialism --- Philosophy and religion

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Calcul --- Calcul. --- Langage et logique. --- Linguistique. --- Logique mathématique. --- Logique symbolique. --- Prédicat (Logique). --- Raisonnement (Philosophie). --- Raisonnement. --- Sémiotique. --- Logique --- Raisonnement

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This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar, in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life - such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use - how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.

Mathematical logic --- Theory of knowledge --- Predicat (Logique) --- Predicate (Logic) --- Predikaat (Logica) --- Truth --- Vérité --- Waarheid --- Truth. --- Predicate (Logic). --- Predicables (Logic) --- Predication (Logic) --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Language and logic --- Logic --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Croyance (philosophie) --- Foi --- Prédication --- Prédicat (logique) --- Christianisme

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Stoics. --- Logic, Ancient. --- Semiotics --- Predicate (Logic) --- Phantasia (The Greek word) --- Stoïcisme --- Logique ancienne --- Sémiotique --- Prédicat (Logique) --- History. --- Histoire --- Plato. --- Aristotle. --- Stoics --- Plato --- Aristotle --- Stoïcisme --- Sémiotique --- Prédicat (Logique) --- Odysseus (Greek mythology) --- Pragmatism in literature --- Homer. --- Homerus.

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This book claims that Aristotle followed an aspect theory of predication. On it statements make a basic assertion of existence that can be more or less qualified. It is claimed that the aspect theory solves many puzzles about Aristotle's philosophy and gives a new unity to his logic and metaphysics. The book considers Aristotle's views on predication relative to Greek philology, Aristotle's philosophical milieu, and the history and philosophy of predication theory. It offers new perspectives on such issues as existential import; the relation of Categories 2 andamp; 4; the place of differentiae and propria ; the predication of matter; unnatural predication; and the square of opposition. It ends by comparing Aristotle's theory with current ones.

Predicat (Logique) --- Predicate (Logic) --- Predikaat (Logica) --- Prédicat (logique) --- Aristotle --- Predicables (Logic) --- Predication (Logic) --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Language and logic --- Logic --- Aristoteles. --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Aristotile --- Predicate (Logic). --- Prédicat (logique) --- Aristotle. --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- アリストテレス --- Arisṭ