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Ep. 199 - God is the Author of Reality & You're One of His Characters w/Dr. Kenny Pearce
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The Existential Quantifier Expreses Existence
I think the existential quantifier expresses existence. So if there's this an X such that X is human, that's just how you say humans exist, right? Yeah. And, and we can quantify over everything, including fictional characters. We do think that fictional characters exist, but they're not real. I talk about different degrees or levels of reality. But those degrees of reality are degrees of fundamentality. If you prefer, they're going to track these grounding relations,. Because the grounding is an inter-level relation, a relation between more real and less real things.
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