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Single Idea 6063

[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties ]

Full Idea

Russell's view makes it impossible to attribute existence to properties, and this would have to be declared ill-formed and meaningless.

Gist of Idea

Russell can't attribute existence to properties

Source

comment on Bertrand Russell (On Denoting [1905]) by Colin McGinn - Logical Properties Ch.2

Book Ref

McGinn,Colin: 'Logical Properties' [OUP 2003], p.25

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A Reaction

This strikes me as a powerful criticism, used to support McGinn's view that existence cannot be analysed, using quantifiers or anything else.