Existence

Edited by
Ernest Angel, Henri Ellenberger, Rollo May

pp. 224-230

in: Ignacio Angelelli, Studies on Gottlob Frege and traditional philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 1967

Abstract

Frege's concept of existence as non-emptiness is first presented (9.1). Next, it is shown that such an approach to existence is but a clarification of what Gilson calls the "Avicennian" or "essentialist" tendency in western metaphysics (9.2). The chapter concludes with a brief reference to the place of being in the world of concepts (9.3).