Language, Truth and Ontology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. The Basic Ontological Categories

   • Roderick M. Chisholm

   Pages 1-13

3. Properties

   • D. M. Armstrong

   Pages 14-27

4. On Negative and Disjunctive Properties

   • Uwe Meixner

   Pages 28-36

5. Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals

   • Keith Lehrer, Vann Mcgee

   Pages 37-47

6. Characteristica Universalis

   • Barry Smith

   Pages 48-77

7. Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects

   • Karel Lambert

   Pages 78-86

8. Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types

   • Herbert Hochberg

   Pages 87-117

9. Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They be?

   • Graeme Forbes

   Pages 118-132

10. Was Frege Right about Variable Objects?

    • Marco Santambrogio

    Pages 133-156

11. Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense

    • Peter Simons

    Pages 157-179

12. Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-to-Date

    • Ingvar Johansson

    Pages 180-192

13. Leibniz on Properties and Individuals

    • Wolfgang Lenzen

    Pages 193-204

14. Back Matter

    Pages 205-214

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All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen, were presented at the colloquium on "Properties", Zinal, June 1-3, 1990. It was, incidentally, at the second of these two colloquia that the European Society for Analytic Philosophy came into being. The fathers of analytic philosophy - Moore and Russell - were in no doubt that ontology or metaphysics as well as the topics oflanguage, truth and logic constituted the core subject-matter of their "analytic realism", 1 for the task of metaphysics as they conceived things was the description of 2 the world. And logic and ontology are indissolubly linked in the system of the grandfather of analytic philosophy, Frege. After the Golden Age of analytic philosophy - in Cambridge and Austria - opposition to realism as well as the "linguistic turn" contributed for a long time to the eclipse of ontology. 3 Thanks in large measure to the work of some of the senior contributors to the present volume - Roderick Chisholm, Herbert Hochberg, David Armstrong and Karel Lambert - ontology and metaphysics now enjoy once again the central position they occupied some eighty years ago in the heyday of analytic philosophy.

• Aristotle
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Gottlob Frege
• causality
• concept
• event
• individual
• intention
• mathematics
• nature
• ontology
• painting
• probability
• subject
• truth

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