Abstract
The paper explores Kant’s attitude toward existence in the Critique of Pure Reason. It has two main goals: first, it argues that Kant’s criticisms of the ontological argument might be vitiated by an ambivalence toward existence, and then it attempts to provide a solution to the ambivalence in question. Finally, since my reading of Kant assumes that for him, existence is governed by the rule of existential generalization, I also prove the following biconditional: existence is not a real predicate iff existential generalization is valid.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1515-1522 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Logics |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 7 |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2018 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Existential generalization
- Kant
- Ontological argument