Question
Along with a negative equivalent, this property is rejected as a “characterizing property” by noneists (“nun-ists”) like Richard Sylvan. A paper about this property by W. V. O. Quine discusses the “Plato’s beard” problem, which he argues causes it to be ascribed too frequently. According to Alexius Meinong (“MY-nong”), it is possible for objects to have being but lack this property, a status used by later scholars to define his namesake jungle. Nominalists reject the idea that universals have this property. In predicate logic, some object with this property is indicated with a backwards capital “E.” Materialists believe that only matter has this property. For 10 points, name this quality of objects that are not imaginary. ■END■
ANSWER: existence [or reality; or word forms like “existing” or “being real”; accept existential quantifier; accept being until read] (The Quine paper is titled “On What There Is.”)
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Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Ben Sterling | Yale A | NYU A | 45 | -5 |
Nathan Zhang | Cornell C | Columbia B | 51 | 10 |
Forrest Weintraub | Columbia A | Rutgers A | 58 | 10 |
Arjun Bothra | Haverford | Rowan A | 114 | 10 |
Eshan Pant | NYU A | Yale A | 114 | 10 |