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Meinongian Logic : The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence.
Title:
Meinongian Logic : The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence.
Author:
Jacquette, Dale.
ISBN:
9783110879742
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (310 pages)
Series:
Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy ; v.11

Perspektiven der Analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Meinong's Theory of Objects -- I. Elements of Object Theory -- 1. Data and Theory -- 2. Meinongian Semantics -- 3. Principles of Meinong's Theory -- 4. Meinongian Ontology and Extraontology -- 5. Program for a Revisionary Object Theory -- II. Formal Semantic Paradox in Meinong's Object Theory -- 1. Clark-Rapaport Paradox -- 2. Mally's Heresy and Nuclear-Extranuclear Properties -- 3. Sosein and the Sosein Paradox -- 4. Dual Modes of Predication -- 5. Extranuclear Solution -- III. Meinong's Theory of Defective Objects -- 1. Mally's Paradox -- 2. Russellian Hierarchy of Ordered Objects -- 3. Dilemmas of Intentionality and a Strengthened Paradox -- 4. The Soseinlos Mountain -- 5. Nuclear Converse Intentionality -- IV. The Object Theory Intentionality of Ontological Commitment -- 1. The Poverty of Extensionalism -- 2. Parsons' Criticisms -- 3. Extensional Alternatives -- 4. Non-Object-Theoretical Intensional Methods -- 5. Ontological Commitment and the Object Theory Rationale -- V. Logic, Mind, and Meinong -- 1. Mind-Independent Meinongian Objects -- 2. Mally's Diagonal Approach -- 3. Unapprehendability and the Power of Assumption -- 4. Conflicts with Intentional Criteria of Ontological Commitment -- 5. Phenomenology and Semantic Designation -- VI. Meinong's Doctrine of the Modal Moment -- 1. The Annahmen Thesis -- 2. Russell's Problem of the Existent Round Square -- 3. Watering-Down -- 4. Eliminating the Modal Moment -- 5. Intentional Identity and Assumptive Generality in Meinong's Object Theory -- Part Two: Object Theory O -- I. Syntax, Formation and Inference Principles -- 1. The Logic -- 2. Syntax -- 3. Formation Principles -- 4. Inference Principles -- II. Semantics -- 1. Intended Interpretation -- 2. Formal Semantics -- 3. Validity -- 4. Ambiguity and Translation from Ordinary Language.

III. Developments of the Logic -- 1. Nuclear and Extranuclear Properties -- 2. Definitions -- 3. Nonlogical Axioms -- 4. Theorems -- 5. Definite Description -- 6. Lambda Abstraction -- 7. Alethic Modality -- 8. The Sosein Paradox -- 9. Meinongian Mathematics and Metamathematics -- 10. Consistency, Completeness, Compactness -- Part Three: Philosophical Problems and Applications -- I. Twardowski on Content and Object -- 1. Phenomenological Psychology -- 2. Diagonal Content-Object Coincidence -- 3. Reinterpreting Twardowski's Reduction -- II. Private Language and Private Mental Objects -- 1. Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument -- 2. Phenomenology, Intentionality, and Psychological Privacy -- 3. A Diary of Private Sensations and the Beetle in the Box -- III. God an Impossible Meinongian Object -- 1. Anselm's Ontological Proof -- 2. Plantinga and the Free Will Defense -- 3. Meinongian Countercriticisms -- IV. Meinongian Models of Scientific Law -- 1. Idealization in Science -- 2. Probability, Confirmation, Induction -- 3. Causal Explanation and Lawlike Necessity -- V. Aesthetics and Meinongian Logic of Fiction -- 1. Story and Context -- 2. Interpenetration of Reality and Myth -- 3. Philosophical Creatures of Fiction -- VI. The Paradox of Analysis -- 1. The Langford-Moore Paradox -- 2. Object Theory Identity -- 3. Solutions -- Bibliography -- Index.
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