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Semantics and Pragmatics of Referentially Transparent and Referentially Opaque Belief Ascription Sentences
This essay takes a critical look at Jonathan Berg’s theory of direct belief. Berg’s analysis of the concept of direct belief is considered insightful, but doubts are raised concerning his generalization of the...
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Leibniz’s Empirical, Not Empiricist Methodology
The object of inquiry in these pages is to arrive at a better understanding of a frequently used but seldom explained terminology in the history of modern philosophy. The distinction is that ostensibly between...
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Tractatus Objects and the Logic of Color Incompatibility
Wittgenstein is simultaneously famous and notorious for his tantalizing illustration-free remarks about ‘ (einfache Gegenstände) in TractatusLogico-Philosophicus (TLP). What does Wittgenstein, among great theori...
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Referential Analysis of Quotation
A non-Fregean solution is offered to the problem of understanding the meaning of quotation statements. Quotations are analyzed by Frege in terms of a distinction that is judged unnecessary and counterintuitive...
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Subalternation and existence presuppositions in an unconventionally formalized canonical square of opposition
An unconventional formalization of the canonical (Aristotelian-Boethian) square of opposition in the notation of classical symbolic logic secures all but one of the canonical square’s grid of logical interrela...
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Jan Willem Wieland: Infinite Regress Arguments
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Quantum Indeterminacy and Physical Reality as a Relevantly Predicationally Incomplete Existent Entity
The interpretation of quantum indeterminacy is relevant to Meinongian object theory because it suggests that with no ability simultaenously to determine a microparticle’s position and momentum there is somethi...
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Meinongian Dark Ages and Renaissance
Meinong’s object theory has been the subject of neglect and ridicule ever since Russell, Ryle and others criticized the logic and predicational semantics of existent and nonexistent objects as internally incon...
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Tarski’s Quantificational Semantics and Meinongian Object Theory Domains
Tarski’s model set theoretical analysis of logical truth presupposes a reduction principle, according to which, if a universally quantified sentence is true, then all of its instances are logically true. Etche...
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Virtual Relations and Meinongian Abstractions
Meinong’s object theory suggests the possibility of making progress in a third alternative with respect to the long-standing apparently intractable collision in the metaphysics of Platonic realism versus nomin...
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Origins of Gegenstandstheorie: Immanent and Transcendent Intended Objects in Brentano, Twardowski, and Meinong
The origins of object theory in the philosophical psychology and semantic theory of Meinong and the Graz school he fledged can be traced both to the insight and failure of Brentano’s immanent objectivity or in...
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Anti-Meinongian Actualist Meaning of Fiction in Kripke’s 1973 John Locke Lectures
Critical exposition is offered of Kripke’s actualist interpretation of the meaning of fiction, against the background of his actualist modal metaphysics. Kripke is committed to the proposition that Sherlock Ho...
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Außersein of the Pure Object
Meinong’s mature doctrine of the Außersein of the pure object implies that any intended object can be considered independently of its ontic status, literally outside of being and non-being (jenseits von Sein und ...
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Meditations on Meinong’s Golden Mountain
This essay considers Meinong’s object theory in light of criticisms originating in Russell’s 1905 essay ‘On Denoting’. A general defense of object theory exposes misinterpretations of Meinong’s writings on Rus...
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Meinong’s Concept of Implexive Being and Non-Being
Meinong introduces the concept of implexive being and non-being to explain the metaphysics of universals, and as a contribution to the theory of reference and perception. Meinong accounts for Aristotle’s doctr...
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Reflections on Mally’s Heresy
A recent dispute about formalizations of Meinongian object theory, involving dual modes of predication or the distinction between constitutive (nuclear) and extraconstitutive (extranuclear) properties, is reex...
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Meinong’s Life and Philosophy
Biography of Meinong, emphasizing his studies with Brentano and the role of intentionality theory in Meinong’s thought as an offshoot of the Brentano school. The facts of Meinong’s life and education, academic...
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Truth and Fiction in Lewis’s Critique of Meinongian Semantics
In his essay, ‘Truth in Fiction’, David Lewis raises four objections to a Meinongian semantics of fiction. Meinongian semantic domains admit existent and nonexistent objects, including objects ostensibly refer...
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Meinong on the Phenomenology of Assumption
Meinong explains assumptions (Annahmen) as a fourth class of psychical phenomena, belonging to an intermediate class supplementing Brentano’s division between presentations (Vorstellungen), judgments (Urteile), a...
