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Mermaids exist in reality
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0 sources for · 12 against

Multiple sources, including reference works, philosophical texts, and fact-checkers, confirm that mermaids are mythical creatures that do not exist in reality.

Evidence against · 12
Snopes: Mermaids: The Body Found
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Fact-checker ruling: False
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AFP Fact Check: Tiktok video revives mermaid claims with footage from fictionalised ...
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Fact-checker ruling: Satire
Wikipedia: Mermaid
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Book: Truth, Knowledge and Causation
2015 · cited by 0
States that in reality no mermaids exist.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Intentionality in Ancient Philosophy
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Classifies objects like mermaids as intentional objects that do not exist in reality.
Cambridge University Press: Philosophy in Christian antiquity
1994 · cited by 0
Notes that the statement 'mermaids exist' is of course untrue.
London, Routledge & K. Paul; New York, Humanities P.: Truth, knowledge and causation
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Affirms that in reality, no mermaids exist.
Collier Books: How to think about God
1991 · cited by 0
States there are no mermaids in reality.
Bantam: How to think about God : a guide for the 20th-century pagan
1982 · cited by 0
States there are no mermaids in reality.
Macmillan: How to think about God : a guide for the 20th-century pagan
1980 · cited by 0
States there are no mermaids in reality.
OpenAIRE: Mysterious Creatures
2026 · cited by 0
Groups mermaids among legendary and mysterious creatures where myth and reality collide.
OpenAIRE: The invention of the mermaid: sea miths and winged figures in the imaginary history of the mediterranean
2020 · cited by 0
States explicitly that with the exception of the nomenclature of sea mammals, mermaids do not exist.
Everything we examined (20) — 16 independent sources
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  1. Snopes: Mermaids: The Body Foundfact-checkerrefutes
  2. AFP Fact Check: Tiktok video revives mermaid claims with footage from fictionalised ...fact-checkerrefutes
  3. Wikipedia: Mermaidreferencerefutes
  4. Book: Truth, Knowledge and Causationreferencerefutes
  5. Book: Robust Realityreferenceno side takennot shown: took no side on this claim
  6. Book: The Ways of Philosophyreferencesame source L6no side takennot shown: took no side on this claim
  7. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Platonism in Metaphysicsreferencesame source L7no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Epistemology in Chinese Philosophyreferencesame source L7no side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Intentionality in Ancient Philosophyreferencesame source L7refutes
  10. Raintree: Mermaidsreferenceno side takennot shown: took no side on this claim
  11. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.: Prologreferenceno side takennot shown: took no side on this claim
  12. Cambridge University Press: Philosophy in Christian antiquityreferencerefutes
  13. London, Routledge & K. Paul; New York, Humanities P.: Truth, knowledge and causationreferencerefutes
  14. Collier Books: How to think about Godreferencesame source L12refutes
  15. Duckworth: The doctrine of propositions and termsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. Bantam: How to think about God : a guide for the 20th-century paganreferencesame source L12refutes
  17. Macmillan: How to think about God : a guide for the 20th-century paganreferencesame source L6refutes
  18. OpenAIRE: “Such Monsters Do Exist in Nature”: Mermaids, Tritons, and the Science of Wonder in Eighteenth-Century Europepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: took no side on this claim
  19. OpenAIRE: Mysterious Creaturespeer-reviewedrefutes
  20. OpenAIRE: The invention of the mermaid: sea miths and winged figures in the imaginary history of the mediterraneanpeer-reviewedrefutes
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