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  • Bolzano transforms such sentences into there-is sentences of the form ˜There is at least one A that has

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • Particular propositions and there-is propositions: In view of Bolzano's interpretation of [A has b] as

    Slices of Matisse gerard varni 2009

  • It was on the Mississippi and had a cute college there-is that Drake?

    Are you all atwitter with excitement over the Iowa caucuses? Ann Althouse 2008

  • Jen's prize piece of garbage-evidence of some kind of life out there-is a found tape-recording made by a girl named Lizzie during various bickering family Christmases.

    Melissa James Gibson: Lady of the Flies 2004

  • Jen's prize piece of garbage-evidence of some kind of life out there-is a found tape-recording made by a girl named Lizzie during various bickering family Christmases.

    Melissa James Gibson: Lady of the Flies 2004

  • The case turns on the possibility of showing not only that ˜is™ or ˜exists™ can sometimes be predicated of individuals but also why the there-is sense cannot substitute for it.

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

  • Following Geach, these two existential uses might be called the ˜actuality™ and the ˜there-is™ uses respectively.

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

  • In its there-is use, ˜is™ is said to express the truth of a proposition, and to answer the question ˜An est ¦?™

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

  • There is no ambiguity at all between the there-is use of

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

  • What weight, then, should be attached to Williams 'rendering of the two propositions in terms of the there-is sense of ˜exists™ rather than of the actuality sense?

    Existence Miller, Barry 2002

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