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Existential Import
1 For example, A. R. Lacey, "Quantifier Words", in A. R. Lacey.vi Dictionary of Philosophy (Charles Scribner's Sons, N. Y.: 1976); Alex Orenstein, Existence and the Particular Quantifier (Temple U. Press, Philadelphia: 1978), pp. 105-07; Baruch Brody, "Glossary of Logical Terms", Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 5 (Macmillan, N. Y.: 1967), p. 64; Antony Flew, "Existential Import", in Antony Fle...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mind
سال: 1897
ISSN: 0026-4423,1460-2113
DOI: 10.1093/mind/vi.4.542