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The property existence, of course, is the simplest example of such a property.
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The set of extranuclear properties involve intentional properties, modal properties and existence.
But now compare the property of existence with the property of being a mammal.
Well, in one sense, they do: they both exist so they both have the property of existence.
(That is, in terms of Plantinga's actualist reconstruction of worlds, necessarily, if a property's existence is entailed by any possible world, it is entailed by all possible worlds).
Do these objects have the property of existence?
But it fails to instantiate the property of existence.
Both approaches may be faulted for making a special case of the property of existence.
Quine and his followers claim not to understand this substantial property of existence, a property that is conceptually independent of the quantifiers (Quine 1948; van Inwagen 1998).
For Sartre absurdity is obviously a fundamental ontological property of existence itself, frustrating us but not restricting our understanding.
For Camus, on the other hand, absurdity is not a property of existence as such, but is an essential feature of our relationship with the world.
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