In reference to Mr.E.J. Nelson’s recent article on “Contradiction and the Presupposition of Existence” (Nelson 1946), I want to comment upon a fundamental assumption involved in the author’s arguments which I find highly questionable. The following is the paradox for the solution of which Mr. Nelson elaborates a distinction between “the necessary conditions of the existence of a proposition” and “the necessary conditions of its truth (exclusive of its existence)
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KEUPINK, A., SHIEH, S. (2006). A NOTE ON LOGIC AND EXISTENCE (1947). In: KEUPINK, A., SHIEH, S. (eds) THE LIMITS OF LOGICAL EMPIRICISM. SYNTHESE LIBRARY, vol 334. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4299-X_15
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