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"What a privilege it is that this thing exists," he said.
We're by no means 100% convinced this thing exists.
We're not entirely sure this thing exists in real life.
No availability or pricing is available right now — nor specs or anything really, let's hope this thing exists.
Ockham's main point here is that an intuitive cognition naturally causes in the mind a number of true contingent judgements about the external thing(s) that caused this intuitive cognition; for example, that this thing exists, or that it is white, and so on.
And if intuitive knowledge is a direct knowledge of either the esse apparens or the esse intentionale, and not of the object itself, from where does the certainty come by which one can firmly and confidently state that "this thing exists"?
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Question: why doesn't this thing exist?
So the kuestion remains: why does this thing exist?
After all, the only thing that happened today was that Google said this thing existed.
I had completely forgotten that this thing existed, but was ecstatic to find it hiding out in my pants.
First, it is not clear that it is coherent to say that there is such a thing as redness and that this one thing exists in many different objects at the same time.
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