Necessity and Non‐Existence

In Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press (2005)
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It is argued that just as there is a distinction between tensed and tenseless sentences so is there a distinction between worldly and unworldly sentences. This distinction has important implications for questions of possible non-existence, the nature of sortal concepts, such as man or set, and the different ways in which an object might exist.

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