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Do holes exist? Or are they pockets of nonexistence?

August 22, 2009
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Cheryl Chen and William Rapaport

Two weeks ago, a caterpillar wove a chrysalis, and turned into a butterfly. There was no butterfly two weeks ago, only a caterpillar. Nonetheless, can I still point to the ...

August 1, 2009
1 response
Allen Stairs

If everyone died, would Kansas still exist? Or does Kansas have to have someone recognizing it to exist?

May 24, 2009
1 response
William Rapaport

What does it mean to exist?

May 7, 2009
2 responses
Jonathan Westphal and William Rapaport

I have been reading a little about realism and anti-realism which has left me thinking that my metaphysical beliefs put me in both camps? Let me explain. I'm inclined to ...

April 17, 2009
1 response
Peter Smith

Setting aside worries about quantum mechanics, would it be possible for there to be a plank of wood which is an irrational number (say, pi) of feet in length?

April 8, 2009
1 response
Allen Stairs

What makes a bottle to be a bottle? The matter that forms it can't represent the actual bottle without the substantial form of a bottle. On the other hand, the ...

April 1, 2009
1 response
William Rapaport

It's a bit difficult to understand the difference between 'Being' and 'Existence'. From what I know, bring is the state or quality of existing. But to me this state or ...

August 27, 2008
3 responses
Allen Stairs, Giovanna Borradori and Allen Stairs

Is it correct to say that square circles (and other incoherent ideas) do not exist? Or would it be more accurate to say they neither exist, nor don't exist?

September 30, 2008
1 response
Peter Smith

Over a year ago, I read Quine's Two Dogmas for a philosophy class. One part in it makes the step from talking about meanings to abolishing meanings and talking only ...

August 2, 2008
1 response
Peter Smith

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