...42. B. Russell, in Mind, XS, x., 1901, pp. 310-311, thus distinguished between being and existence: * Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves Being belongs to whatever can be counted. If A be any term that can be counted as one, it...

...explain the distinction of being and existence, and then to return to Lotze's three kinds of being. Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted. If A be any term that can be counted as one,...

...explain the distinction of being and existence, and then to return to Lotze's three kinds of being. Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted. If A be any term that can be counted as one,...

...of a non-existing one. "Being" is frequently used in the same sense. For example, Russell* says : " 'Being' is that which belongs to every conceivable...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves . . . Numbers, the Homeric Gods, relations, chimeras and four dimensional spaces all have...

...meaning. With what Mr. Russell has said as to "Being," what I have now said is in accord, for he says that "being is that which belongs to every conceivable...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves." The position is not new with Mr. Russell's formulation of it, as I have met with it in...

...object which has independent 'being', and which 'subsists' although it does not exist. In 1903 he wrote: Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted . . . Numbers, the Homeric gods, relations, chimeras...

...statements of the Austrian-realist position on that issue occurs in Russell's Principles, in which he wrote: Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. ... "A is not" must always be either false or meaningless. For if A were nothing, it could...

...important qualification which he thinks in effect solves the problem of negative existentials. He says, 'Being is that which belongs to every conceivable...can possibly occur in any proposition, true or false .... "A is not" must always be either false or meaningless. For if A were nothing, it could not be...

...thought that the way out of this dilemma was to postulate a difference between being and existence. Being is that which belongs to every conceivable term,...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted. If A be any term that can be counted as one,...

...116); or what Prior calls "Bertrand Drunk's" sense of being which belongs to every conceivable temi. lo every possible object of thought - in short to everything...proposition, true or false, and to all such propositions themselves. Being belongs to whatever can be counted ... Numbers, the Homeric gods, relations, chimeras,...