The Strange Case of Dr. Moloch and Mr. Snazzo (or the Parmenides’ Riddle Once Again)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22134305 |
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| Authors | Alberto Voltolini (0000-0003-0400-1978, University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 54 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2409-9287 • E-ISSN: 2409-9287 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/philosophies8040054 |
| OpenAlex | W4382023720 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Once one draws a distinction between loyal non-existent items, which do not exist in a non-universal sense of the first-order existence predicate, and non-items, which fail to exist in a universal sense of that predicate, one may allow for the former but not for the latter in the overall ontological domain, so as to adopt a form of soft Parmenideanism. There are both theoretical and empirical reasons for this distinction
Epistemology · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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