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So you made no claim about a unicorn existing in external reality? Then there exists just a picture of a unicorn in your mind. It is consistent and ex...

You defined the unicorn as existing in external reality (according to an imagination) and at the same time you said that it doesn't exist in external ...

Because there seems to be no fundamental difference between logical possibility and existence. All logical possibilities exist in the sense that they ...

But if you suppose that the unicorns exist in a place, for example on our planet, where the conditions are inconsistent with their existence (the requ...

You define the thing as "existing where it doesn't exist"; such a definition is contradictory, it defines an inconsistent thing and that's why such a ...

An object is logically consistent iff it is identical to itself and different from other objects. A four-sided triangle is a triangle that is not a tr...

They are difficult to imagine/visualize and cannot be interacted with, so they are ontologically controversial. But they seem to be a necessary part o...

That which is logically consistent has an identity and so is something. That which is logically inconsistent does not have an identity and so is nothi...

Whatever rules you make, if they refer to reality they cannot say that something has and in the same sense doesn't have three sides.

But our perceptions are created from information that comes to our senses from external reality, no? So there is also an external reality that is the ...

What we imagine, exists in our minds, as thoughts or mental images. But if we imagine that some thing exists in some place in external reality where i...

I never really asked myself the question if I exist - I take my existence for granted. The reason I take it for granted is that I am conscious (consci...

And what is the difference between a logically consistent thing that exists and a logically consistent thing that doesn't exist?

Can you be more specific? The paper addresses many things.

I assert at the beginning that existing things must be consistent because it seems absurd to me that an inconsistent thing (such as a four-sided trian...

I think it would be absurd if there existed something that is not identical to itself, or something that is not different from other things. So your e...

It depends on whether Vulcan is consistently defined. Does it have a consistent identity? If not, then it has no identity and it makes no sense to say...

A nonexistent has no identity, so I don't think it makes sense to regard it as identical to itself. The definition of a four-sided triangle, for examp...

I wouldn't say that naming something creates it. The candle is objectively there, as a collection of atoms. Just because we find this collection inter...

If the model is inconsistent then it is not an accurate representation of reality, because reality cannot be inconsistent. I am talking about reality,...

Then did you mean the DNA as an abstract thing? In that case, it is a single abstract thing, identical (in every way) to itself. And this abstract thi...

The whole spacetime is present, with the Big Bang singularity presumably at the beginning of the time dimension. And abstract entities like numbers ar...

If you take a more general definition of "context" you will find that the singularity of the Big Bang does have a context from which it is different. ...

You cannot come up with an example of a consistent thing that is known not to exist? There is no such example. If existence is logical consistency the...

I guess we can agree that every thing that exists must satisfy the criterion of logical consistency: it must be what it is and not be what it is not. ...

Causality can be viewed as a special kind of logical relations between entities in the context of the arrow of time, where the consequences logically ...