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A unicorn and a pegasus are both non-being; yet it is true that unicorns have horns and pegasi have wings. Thus non-existent things like unicorns, square circles, and golden mountains can have different properties, and must have a 'being such-and-such' even though they lack 'being' proper. [13]
Whether objects can be divided into existent and nonexistent objects is a subject of controversy. This distinction is sometimes used to explain how it is possible to think of fictional objects like dragons and unicorns but the concept of nonexistent objects is not generally accepted; some philosophers say the concept is contradictory. [16]
Articles relating to nonexistent objects. People may imagine, desire or fear something that does not exist. People may imagine, desire or fear something that does not exist. Subcategories
Noneism, as defined by Priest and Sylvan, is the idea brought forth by Meinong that there are existent objects, subsistent objects (physically nonexistent) and absistent objects (nonexistent things that lack form or shape), but the theory denies that subsistent and absistent objects exist. [5] Opposing theories
Reality is the sum or aggregate of all that is real or existent within the universe, as opposed to that which is only imaginary, nonexistent or nonactual.The term is also used to refer to the ontological status of things, indicating their existence. [1]
Lennay Kekua, nonexistent deceased girlfriend of former Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o. Sidd Finch, nonexistent baseball prodigy created by George Plimpton for an April Fool's Day prank. Taro Tsujimoto, nonexistent Japanese hockey player selected by Buffalo Sabres general manager Punch Imlach in the 1974 NHL Draft.
Gorgias is the author of a lost work: On Nature or the Non-Existent (also On Non-Existence). [8] Rather than being one of his rhetorical works, it presented a theory of being that at the same time refuted and parodied the Eleatic thesis. The original text was lost and today there remain just two paraphrases of it.
Other questions about the non-physical which dualism has not answered include such questions as how many minds each person can have, which is not an issue for physicalism which can simply declare one-mind-per-person almost by definition; and whether non-physical entities such as minds and souls are simple or compound, and if the latter, what ...