Rethinking of mediaeval theory of being from modern semantic and pragmatic points of view

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Modern scholars, such as Geach, Weidemann, Kenny, and Davies, pick out one or two senses of 'esse' in Aquinas, translate it into 'existence' or squeeze it into the concept of existence in its modern sense. But this kind of things are irrelevant to Aquinas himself. For Aquinas doesn't even use the term 'existere' or 'existentia' when he talks about the nature of existential propositions and Aquinas has a system of the semantic dichotomy of 'esse' and 'ens', whose meanings can't be fully systematically understood except in terms of the semantic dichotomy and the pragmatic analysis.