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1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; Introduction; Part One: The Non-Property View; Chapter One; 1.1 Attempts at Urbanizing Hume; 1.2 The Most Perfect Assurance of Being; 1.3 The Most Clear and Conclusive Dilemma; 1.4 On External Existence; 1.5 A First Occurrence of the Paradox of Non-Existence; 1.6 To Exist and to Be Believed; 1.7 Objections; Chapter Two; 2.1 Real and Logical Predicates; 2.2 Pars Destruens; 2.3 Comparison with Hume and Frege; 2.4 Pars Construens; 2.5 Kant, Neo-Meinongianism and the Ontological Argument; 2.6 Objections; Chapter Three |
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3.1 Mental In-Existence3.2 To Judge Is to Accept or Reject; 3.3 Brentano's Existential Reformulation of the Square of Opposition; 3.4 Hume and Brentano on Existence and Belief/Acceptance; 3.5 Twardowski on Contents and Objects of Ideas; 3.6 Twardowski and the Property-View of Existence; 3.7 Objections; Chapter Four; 4.1 The Meaningless Reading of "to Exist"; 4.2 Existence and the Particular Quantifier; 4.3 The Self-Evident Reading of "to Exist"; 4.4 Singular Statements and the Sense/Reference Distinction; 4.5 Stabilizing Frege's Account; 4.6 A Second Occurrence of the Paradox of Non-Existence |
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4.7 Digression on Russell and Quine4.8 Objections; Part Two: The Property View; Chapter Five; 5.1 Meinong and Brentano; 5.2 Meinong's Solution to the Paradox of Non-Existence; 5.3 Terminological Remarks; 5.4 Being-Objectives and So-Being-Objectives and their Independence; 5.5 Meinong's B-Strategy; 5.6 Russell's Objections; 5.7 Meinong's Answers to the Paradoxes of Characterization; 5.8 Objections; 5.9 MacColl and the Early Russell on Existence; Chapter Six; 6.1 Almost a New Solution to the Paradox of Non-Existence; 6.2 On Impossible Objects and Contradictory Statements |
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6.3 Constitutive and Extra-Constitutive Properties6.4 Nuclear and Extra-Nuclear Properties; 6.5 Quine's Possible Man in the Doorway; 6.6 Answer to Quine's Challenge; 6.7 Objections; Chapter Seven; 7.1 Rapaport; 7.2 Zalta; 7.3 The Unrestricted Characterization Principle; 7.4 Objections; Chapter Eight; 8.1 The Perfectly Ordinary Property of Existence; 8.2 The Representing-Operator; 8.3 Constant Domains; 8.4 Objections; Interlude; Chapter Nine; 9.1 The Existence-Predicate; 9.2 Negative, Neuter and Positive Free Logics; 9.3 Supervaluations and Superinterpretations; 9.4 Free Dialogic Logic |
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9.5 ObjectionsPart Three: The Deflationist Compromise; Chapter Ten; 10.1 A Raw Intuition; 10.2 Fregeanism; 10.3 Neo-Meinongianism; 10.4 The Attempt at a Compromise; 10.5 A Second Raw Intuition; 10.6 Deflationism and Meta-Ontology; Chapter Eleven; 11.1 Actualism and Possibilism; 11.2 The Rationale behind Actualism and Possibilism; 11.3 The Modal Raw Intuition; 11.4 A Second Modal Raw Intuition; 11.5 Presentism and Contingentism; Chapter Twelve; 12.1 Propositional Attitudes Reports; 12.2 Objectual Attitudes Reports; 12.3 A Further Objectual Attitude Report; Chapter Thirteen |
| Summary |
The problem of existence is reputed to be one of the oldest and most intractable problems of philosophy: what do we mean when we say that something exists or, even more challengingly, that something does not exist? Intuitively, it seems that we all have a firm grip upon what we are saying. But how should we explain the difference - if any - between statements about existence and other, garden-variety predicative statements? What is the difference between saying that something exists and saying, for instance, that something is red, heavy, or soft? These questions provide the focus for this book. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ontology.
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Ontology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bacigalupo, Giuliano. Study on existence. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443850683 (OCoLC)972427849 |
| ISBN |
9781443891707 (electronic book) |
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1443891703 (electronic book) |
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1443850683 |
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9781443850681 |
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