Existence as a Real Property The Ontology of Meinongianism /

• Main Author: Berto, Francesco. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 356
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; Philosophy.; History of Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4207-9

This profound exploration of one of the core notions of philosophy<U+0014>the concept of existence itself<U+0014>reviews, then counters (via Meinongian theory), the mainstream philosophical view running from Hume to Frege, Russell, and Quine, summarized thus by Kant: <U+001c>Existe...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: Much Ado About Nothing
• Acknowledgments
• Existence as Logic
• Chapter 1. The Paradox of Non-Being
• Chapter 2. To Exist and to Count
• Chapter 3. Troubles for the Received View
• Nonexistence
• Chapter 4. Existence As a Real Property
• Chapter 5. Nav̐e Meinongianism
• Chapter 6. Meinongianisms of The First, Second, and Third Kind
• Close Encounters (with Nonexistents) of the Third Kind
• Chapter 7. Conceiving the Impossible
• Chapter 8. Nonexistents of The Third Kind at Work
• Chapter 9. Open Problems
• References
• Index.