Necessary Existents.
It seems obvious that I could have failed to exist. My parents could easily never have met, in which case I should never have been conceived and born. The like applies to everyone. More generally, it seems plausible that whatever exists in space and time could have failed to exist. Events could have...
| Published in: | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 233 - 252 |
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Cambridge University Press
2002
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