# Resolving existential import/fallacy **URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/resolving-existential-import-fallacy/80586 **Category:** Philosophy **Created:** [October 13, 2024, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/resolving-existential-import-fallacy/80586 "2024-10-13T12:47:42Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/user_avatar/www.ilovephilosophy.com/ichthus77/32/446_2.png) [@Ichthus77](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Ichthus77) #### Post date: [November 2, 2024, 12:43pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/resolving-existential-import-fallacy/80586/10 "2024-11-02T12:43:04Z")
The syllogistic fallacy of exclusive premises (two negatives), due to not being able to deduce ex nihilo (affirmative conclusion from negative premise), should also require existential import (although I think we need to upgrade to three kinds of import: ontic, deontic, and thetic import - [Defining the Imports](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/defining-the-imports/80352)) of all terms, including universals—should consider a premise with an empty term/category to be unsound (that would mean the REAL existential fallacy is a premise that is unsound or falsely (due to lacking import) presumed sound, rather than the requirement of import itself being fallacious). See Wilford Hodges” book, _Logic_, pages 132 to 134, regarding designators requiring a purely referential occurrence, a primary reference. This is basically the same thing as existential import. As relevant as last reply: > [@Modal Logic Question](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/modal-logic-question/49320/57): > > Don’t you just need one actual with actuated possibility, and any counterfactuals outside actuality just be merely mental (empty abstracta), but past/future be unactuated (for us, except what is premixed in actuated/now/present) actuality? For God…he is omnitemporal. Alltimes actual/present. The premixed whole. hiccup --- _[View the full topic](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/resolving-existential-import-fallacy/80586)._