THE PROBLEM OF NON-EXISTING ENTITIES, THE MENTAL BEING AND THE UNIVERSAL PROPOSITION

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ABBASIAN M.A.

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Journal: MAQALAT WA BARRASIHA Year:2002 | Volume:34 | Issue:70 Page(s): 223-243

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THE PROBLEM OF NON-EXISTING ENTITIES, THE MENTAL BEING AND THE UNIVERSAL PROPOSITION

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Naturally, humans are capable of entertaining thoughts, or believing in propositions, about particular individuals or objects. Sometimes they express these thoughts or propositions by uttering declarative subject-predicate sentences, such as "Hafiz was a poet/ orl / You are reading a book". It seems to be that occasions in which people entertain thoughts whose subjects do not exist. In such cases, they also express their thoughts by uttering sentences of subject-predicate form, like" the round square is round". and "the golden mountain is high." But there is a general problem as to how one can say something about that which does not exist. According to a great number of Muslim philosophers, it is because of the "mental being" of non-existing entities and of the presence of their quiddity before the mind that we can make any assertion about these entities. We can express the proposition containing them by subject-predicate sentences. In this article, the author will show that the ontological argument of Muslim philosopers is both incapable of resolving the aforementioned problems, and unable to give a correct explanation of the theory of "mental being".

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ABBASIAN, M.A.. (2002). THE PROBLEM OF NON-EXISTING ENTITIES, THE MENTAL BEING AND THE UNIVERSAL PROPOSITION. MAQALAT WA BARRASIHA, 34(70), 223-243. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/13774/en

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ABBASIAN M.A.. THE PROBLEM OF NON-EXISTING ENTITIES, THE MENTAL BEING AND THE UNIVERSAL PROPOSITION. MAQALAT WA BARRASIHA[Internet]. 2002;34(70):223-243. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/13774/en

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M.A. ABBASIAN, “THE PROBLEM OF NON-EXISTING ENTITIES, THE MENTAL BEING AND THE UNIVERSAL PROPOSITION,” MAQALAT WA BARRASIHA, vol. 34, no. 70, pp. 223–243, 2002, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/13774/en

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