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    Existence and Predication: Some Obervations
    (University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Barman, Dipankar
    The problem concerning the predication of existence has been a controversial issue in the philosophy of language and logic. The trace of this problem, of course, is found in Plato’s Theatetus, where he remarked onthe first elements that “[e]ach of them just by itself can only be named; we cannot attribute to it anything further or say that it exists or does not exist…”(Cornford,1935, 201E-202, p. 143). Notwithstanding, the problem came in light duly from Descartes’ Ontological Argument as to God’s existence....