(separable) to accommodate; provide food a shelter to The government put the refugees up in temporary housing. PUT UP WITH (inseparable) to tolerate Max has great difficulty putting up with noisy children. PULL APART The teacher pulled the fighting students apart in the classroom. B. The 'flat earth theory' can be easily pulled apart by any scientist. PULL AWAY = A. gain in distance B. vehicle leaving from a place A. The race leader pulled away from the others and won the race handily. B. the truck pulled away form the loading dock after unloading. PULL BACK = A. score a goal or point when behind B. retreat to previous position C. decide not to do something previously planned. A. The teamed pulled back to even after two quick goals. B. The soldiers pulled back after the initial attack. C. They pulled back form the investment saying ti was ultimately too risky. PULL DOWN = A. demolish B. depress someone C. earn (colloquial) A
Alexius Meinong (1904/1960) had boldly leapt to deny J6, insisting à la St. Anselm that any possible object of thought--even a self-contradictory one--has being of a sort even though only a few such things are so lucky as to exist in reality as well. Moriarty has being of that sort and can be referred to, even though--fortunately for England and the world--he lacks the property of existing. 2 With that otherwise unexplained distinction in hand, Meinong could deal handily with negative existentials in particular. Such a sentence says, of an entity that (of course) has being, that that entity lacks existence. Secretariat, Seabiscuit and Smarty Jones were horses that existed but lacked wings; Pegasus had wings but failed to exist. It happens. Less implausibly, Frege himself dealt with Apparent Reference to Nonexistents by rejecting J3: He posited abstract entities that he called "senses" and argued that a singular term is meaningful in virtue of having