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Nonexistent Objects
Author | : Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics Terence Parsons,Terence Parsons |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0300024045 |
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In this book Terence Parsons revives the older tradition of taking such objects at face value. Using various modern techniques from logic and the philosophy of language, he formulates a metaphysical theory of nonexistent objects. The theory is given a formalization in symbolism rich enough to contain definite descriptions, modal operators, and epistemic contexts, and the book includes a discussion which relates the formalized theory explicitly to English.
Nonexistent Objects
Author | : K.J. Perszyk |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789401582148 |
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Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe. This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.
Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy
Author | : Zhihua Yao |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-01-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781350121485 |
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Can we know what there is not? This book examines the historical development of the concept of the cognition of nonexistent objects in several major Buddhist philosophical schools. Beginning with a study of the historical development of the concept in Mahasamghika, Darstantika, Yogacara and Sautrantika, it evaluates how successfully they have argued against the extreme view of their main opponent the Sarvastivadins and established their view that one can know what there is not. It also includes thematic studies on the epistemological issues of nonexistence, discussing making sense of empty terms, controversies over negative judgments, and a proper classification of the conceptions of nothing or nonexistence. Taking a comparative approach to these topics, this book considers contemporary Western philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Meinong and Russell alongside representative figures of the Buddhist Pramana School. Based on first-hand study of primary sources in Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan, Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy makes available the rich discussions and debates on the epistemological issues of nonexistence in Buddhist philosophy to students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy.
Fictional Objects
Author | : Stuart Brock,Anthony Everett |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780198735595 |
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Discusses a range of philosophical questions about fictional characters and fictional objects, with implications for metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
The Nonexistent
Author | : Anthony Everett |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-08-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780199674794 |
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Anthony Everett gives a philosophical defence of the common-sense view that there are no such things as fictional people, places, and things. He argues that our talk and thought about such fictional objects takes place within the scope of a pretense, and that we gain little but lose much by accepting fictional realism.
Objects and Pseudo Objects
Author | : Bruno Leclercq,Sebastien Richard,Denis Seron |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-04-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781501501395 |
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The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account. One of the major issues confronting the 20th century philosophers was to identify which of these entities should be rationally accepted as part of the furniture of the world and which should not, and to provide a general account of how the latter are nevertheless subject to true predication. The 13 original essays collected in this volume explore some of the main approaches to this issue in the 20th century, including Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, Carnap, Frege, Twardowski, Kotarbinski, Nicolai Hartmann, and realist phenomenologists.
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
Author | : Jeeloo Liu,Douglas Berger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-06-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781317683834 |
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A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collection of essays brings together the work of twenty of the world’s prominent scholars of Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Neo-Confucian, Japanese and Korean thought to illuminate fascinating philosophical conceptualizations of "nothingness" in both classical and modern Asian traditions. The unique collection offers new work from accomplished scholars and provides a coherent, panoramic view of the most significant ways that "nothingness" plays crucial roles in Asian philosophy. It includes both traditional and contemporary formulations, sometimes putting Asian traditions into dialogue with one another and sometimes with classical and modern Western thought. The result is a book of immense value for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Literary Wittgenstein
Author | : John Gibson,Wolfgang Huemer |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0415289726 |
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A stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature, written by the most prominent figures in the field.