Nonexistent Objects

1. Front Matter

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2. Introductory Considerations

   • Kenneth J. Perszyk

   Pages 1-38

3. Meinong’s Theory of Objects

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   Pages 39-91

4. The Nature of Meinong’s Objects: Existent and Nonexistent

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   Pages 92-150

5. Two Main Arguments for Nonexistents

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   Pages 151-223

6. Main Arguments Against Nonexistents

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   Pages 224-285

7. Back Matter

   Pages 286-307

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Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe.
This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.

• English literature
• bibliography
• individual
• intention
• interpret
• issue
• literature
• metaphysics
• nature
• physics
• writing

• Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  Kenneth J. Perszyk

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