Modes of Existence : : Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic /

Modes of Existence : : Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic / / ed. by Andrea Bottani, Richard Davies.

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The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or univers...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Barbero, Carola,
Inwagen, Peter van,
Kroon, Frederick,
Mulligan, Kevin,
Orilia, Francesco,
Raspa, Venanzio,
Reicher, Maria E.,
Spolaore, Giuseppe,
Varzi, Achille C.,
HerausgeberIn:
Bottani, Andrea,
Davies, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2006
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Philosophische Forschung / Philosophical Research , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Facts, Formal Objects and Ontology
  • Fictional and Aesthetic Objects: Meinong’s Point of View
  • Russell’s Descriptions and Meinong’s Assumptions
  • McGinn on Existence
  • The Talk I Was Supposed to Give
  • Two Interpretations of “According to a Story”
  • Madame Bovary as a Higher-Order Object
  • Identity across Time and Stories
  • A Problem about Reference in Fiction
  • Backmatter

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