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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

    { 1 } - "What is there?"
    { 2 } - "What is being, qua being?"
    { 3 } - "How does being differ from nonbeing?"
    { 4 } - "Why is there something, instead of nothing?"
    { 5 } - "Does existence precede essence?"

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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

The correct answer to Quine's question is "everything." But people will still differ over more specific cases, like whether minds, numbers, or universals exist.

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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

    { 1 } - "What is there?"
    { 2 } - "What is being, qua being?"
    { 3 } - "How does being differ from nonbeing?"
    { 4 } - "Why is there something, instead of nothing?"
    { 5 } - "Does existence precede essence?"

Thomists are interested in this question.

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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

    { 1 } - "What is there?"
    { 2 } - "What is being, qua being?"
    { 3 } - "How does being differ from nonbeing?"
    { 4 } - "Why is there something, instead of nothing?"
    { 5 } - "Does existence precede essence?"

Quine wasn't concerned with this.

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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

    { 1 } - "What is there?"
    { 2 } - "What is being, qua being?"
    { 3 } - "How does being differ from nonbeing?"
    { 4 } - "Why is there something, instead of nothing?"
    { 5 } - "Does existence precede essence?"

Quine wasn't concerned with this.

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Quine sees the basic question of ontology as:

    { 1 } - "What is there?"
    { 2 } - "What is being, qua being?"
    { 3 } - "How does being differ from nonbeing?"
    { 4 } - "Why is there something, instead of nothing?"
    { 5 } - "Does existence precede essence?"

Sartre was interested in this question.

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