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        It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions

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        Egerton, Karl
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        2299/22124
        Abstract
        Several recent discussions of metaphysics disavow existence-questions, claiming that they are metaphysically uninteresting because trivially settled in the affirmative by Moorean facts. This is often given as a reason to focus metaphysical debate instead on questions of grounding. I argue that the strategy employed to undermine existence-questions fails against its usual target: Quineanism. The Quinean can protest that the formulation given of their position is a straw man: properly understood, as a project of explication, Quinean metaphysics does not counsel us to choose between obvious ordinary-language claims and absurd revisionist claims, even if appeal to Moorean facts is permitted.
        Publication date
        2019-02-18
        Published in
        Erkenntnis
        Published version
        https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4
        Other links
        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/22124
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