Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• davood hosseini

assistant prof, tarbiat modares university

Abstract

In this study, my aim is twofold: first to establish a relationship between the meaning of “existent” and the existence of existence; and second to give a new argument for the existence of existence. I will argue that in the presence of reasonable assumptions which all are conceded by Mullasadra, there is a close relationship between the fact that “existent” is semantically derived and the existence of existence. For this end, I first argue that, in the presence of reasonable assumptions which all are conceded by Mullasadra, “existent” with a semantically derived meaning is true of something if “existence” is true of something. Then, I will give some textual evidence that from Mullasadra’s point of view “existence” is true of something if existence exists. After that, I will give some textual evidence that for Mullasadra “existent” is semantically derived. These result a novel argument for the existence of existence, which does not have any predecessor in Mullasadra’s or his commentator’s texts.
 
 

Keywords

• existence
• existent
• being semantically derived