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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

B. H. Slater
B. H. Slater
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University of Western Australia
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Extract

Consider the following argument.

(i) ‘Fa’ and ‘a’ (or ‘-Fa’) are contradictories.

(ii) So one or other of ‘Fa’ and ‘a’ must be true.

(iii) Now ‘Fa’ entails ‘(x)Fx’,

(iv) And ‘a’ entails ‘(x)x’,

(v) So one or other of ‘(x)Fx’ and ‘(x)x’ must be true.

(vi) But both of ‘(x)Fx’ and ‘(x)x’ say there is something.

(vii) So, either way, there is something, i.e. something exists.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 1979 , pp. 362 - 372
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1979

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