О понятии и суждениях существования.

Abstract

The paper revaluates Kant's argument against treating the existence notion as a predicate. The author agrees with Kant, Russell, Carnap, and Quine's point of view that existence contexts are expressed with the help of logical quantifiers. At the same time the author believes existence predicate to be modal (meaning epistemic modalities) and it helps us to construct true assertions about physically nonexistent objects impossible for example in Russell's theory of definite descriptions.