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The primacy of existence or quiddity has been considered one of the important and influential problems in the tradition of Islamic philosophy since the time of Mīrdāmād until this day. Most philosophers have accepted the primacy of existence and rejected its opposite view, and some have accepted the primacy of quiddity. In this paper by examining the conceptual principles and analysing the subject in dispute, we have reached to the conclusion that the primacy of the primacy of existence quiddity is not really a philosophical problem, and the dispute between the two parties is a verbal dispute and the disputants are talking past each other. The proponents and the opponents of the primacy of existence do not mean the same thing by “existence”. Similarly, the proponents and the opponents of the primacy of quiddity do not mean the same thing by “quiddity”. Quiddity for the proponents of the primacy of quiddity is the existent quiddity, not quiddity qua quiddity. And the existent quiddity for them is the produced external reality, not the quiddity which has been unified with existence. Likewise, the existence deemed fictitious by the proponents of the primacy of quiddity is the general self-evident concept of existence, not existence in the sense that is the external reality which is a cause of an effect or an effect of a cause. After explaining the claim and providing proof that the dispute is verbal, some objections have been raised and answered.
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