Meinongian logic : the semantics of existence and nonexistence / Dale Jacquette.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.

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""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 Principles1. 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""

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