(July 20, 2009 at 3:53 am)Arcanus Wrote: So if someone asserts that Thomas Tenison crowned two British monarchs, built a bridge across the River Thames near Oxfordshire county, and gave the sermon at the funeral of Queen Mary II, and later it is discovered that he built no such bridge, how does that affect the existence of Tenison, the entity that the action is placed upon? (In my formation of the issue, it would not be the case that they are wrong about Tenison's existence but, rather, wrong about Tenison building a bridge.)The Tenison that is described in the assertion does not exist. A Tenison may also exist that did everything but build the bridge, but he wasn't the one being described in the assertion.
The key difference is between the description of the actions of a being, and the actual actions of a being. If one of the described actions is false, then that description is false, *that* specific being (the one being described) does not exist.
