Sentence examples for existence claim from inspiring English sources

This criticism is slightly unfair to Dirac since the 18th-century biologists were making a very restricted existence claim, that mermaids exist now somewhere on earth, whereas Dirac's claim is spatiotemporally unrestricted.

If, for example, Ernie has any doubts about the reality or meaningfulness of mereological objects, then Max's putative truthmaker for his framework-relative existence claim "7 objects exist-in-M" will be as unconvincing to him as classical Cass's disjunctive truthmaker for Q was to the constructivist Dora.

Failure to find the cause the theory asserts to be there will in general not require the rejection of the theory: the claim is an existence claim, and a failure to find something asserted to exist does not refute that claim; perhaps one has not looked hard enough.

Arguments like the first cause argument for God's existence claim to be demonstrations; their exponents believe that anyone who commits himself to the truth of the premises stands logically committed to the truth of the conclusions.

But this existence claim is an extra claim and cannot be gained through an analytic formula.

What counts as an acceptable existence claim is relative to the actual science.

Existence claims and stipulations do not express something about an existing entity.

However, he singles out existence claims.

Those separate existence claims should be the focus of attention.

Neo-Meinongians endorse a similar view of existence claims.

They feel the presumption of non-existence is only plausible for particular existence claims.