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... existence , which he explained in his essay Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseyns Gottes ( 1763 ; " The Only Possible Ground for a Demonstration of the Existence of God " ) . This , however , only ...
... existence , which he explained in his essay Der einzig mögliche Beweisgrund zu einer Demonstration des Daseyns Gottes ( 1763 ; " The Only Possible Ground for a Demonstration of the Existence of God " ) . This , however , only ...
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... existence that the existence of other types of being depends . Or , to put the point in not quite Aristotelian terms , primary substances are the only concrete existents ; Socrates , the bearer of a proper name , exists in a way in ...
... existence that the existence of other types of being depends . Or , to put the point in not quite Aristotelian terms , primary substances are the only concrete existents ; Socrates , the bearer of a proper name , exists in a way in ...
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... existence would make no sense except as a survival of embodied existence in a common public world . If this is correct , what exists cannot consist , as Hume sup- posed , of momentary items but must rather take the form of substances in ...
... existence would make no sense except as a survival of embodied existence in a common public world . If this is correct , what exists cannot consist , as Hume sup- posed , of momentary items but must rather take the form of substances in ...
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