Beyond Necessity

We don’t have to buy everything that Frege says about concepts to agree that using a concept expression F we can say things like ‘There are...

I have been looking at ‘Van Inwagen on Fiction, Existence, Properties, Particulars, and Method’, by Bill Vallicella ( Studia Neoaristotelic...

Vallicella is agonising here (see also here ) about the problem of how (or whether) it is possible to identify individuals who do not exist,...

The Maverick Philosopher has an insightful post on modes of being, haecceity and proper names. Proper names are the real difficulty for a ...

The difficulty raised by Paasch is as follows. If haecceity involves a form of relation to an individual, the haecceity cannot be prior to t...

Before I attempt an answer to Paasch's question there is a preliminary notion that needs to be clarified, as it is crucial to Scotus...

I've read through four of Paasch's five posts. Some comments. In Scotus: haecceities must be some positive entity he introduces Sco...

I put J.T. Paasch (Blog: Boring Things - "nothing but fun") on my visiting list some time ago. But then it was not updated for so...