Mind and Existence

Since Kant and Frege, contemporary ontology has assumed that there is no (common) property to existence. In this way the old question as to the meaning of being had been reformulated in a different frame.

Nevertheless, this assumed that the meaning of “existence” could be understood without recourse to categories of sense, while simultaneously being tied back to logical functions like existential qualification or the concept of the set. In his original new book Markus Gabriel advocates, on the contrary, an ontology of sense-fields: to exist means to appear within a sense-field. Surprisingly, according to Gabriel, this speaks precisely for a new realism within ontology.