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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 15:52 |
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[Revised entry by Maria Reicher on September 8, 2010.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
A nonexistent object is something that does not exist. Some examples often cited are: Zeus, Pegasus, Sherlock Holmes, Vulcan, the perpetual motion machine, the golden mountain, the fountain of youth, the round square, etc. Some important philosophers have thought that the very concept of a nonexistent object is contradictory (Hume) or logically ill-formed (Kant, Frege), while others (Leibniz, Meinong, the Russell...
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