Alexander Pruss's Blog

In his famous critique of the ontological argument, Kant said that existence is not a property. Frege and Russell gave a very influential re...

Pluralists about ways of being say that there are multiple ways to be (e.g., substance and accident, divine being and finite being, the ten ...

The intension of a referring expression e in a language is a partial function I e that assigns to a world w the referent I e ( ...

On the Fregean view of quantifiers, quantifiers express properties of properties. Thus, ∀ expresses a property U of Universality and ∃...