> So what is the point of such debate? This is an incredibly parochial point of view. Kant's seminal "existence is not a predicate" argument has had a foundat

> So what is the point of such debate? This is an incredibly parochial point of view. Kant's seminal "existence is not a predicate" argument has had a foundational impact after he put the rationalist vs. empiricist debate to rest. In fact, it's extremely deep, arguing that the P in ∃xPx can't be "exists." Modal logicians have tried to come up with more clever ways of circumventing this, e.g. E(t) := ∃x(x=t)—although this isn't entirely non-problematic, either. For that matter, the question of anything existing is profoundly human, so asking "what is the point" kind of misses the point.