[lit-ideas] Meinongian Sex Appeal
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- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:58:56 EST
Re: the proposition,
"2 + 2 + 5" as _conceived_ [in terms of real concepts]
by Donal McEvoy
In "Vacuous Names", H. P. Grice writes of things like
Pegasus flies.
True or false?
He concludes it's true, since Pegasus does not exist.
Yet, he says his system surely "creates no Meinongian jungle".
--- But then Grice was monogamous, and he possibly underestimated the
sex-appeal of the Austrian.
< the name of Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), Austrian philosopher + -IAN.]
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Meinong or his philosophical theories,
esp. his theory of objects, which allows for different modes of being for a
variety of objects of thought.
1904 B. RUSSELL in Mind 13 353
False propositions, according to Meinong, are the non-subsisting, merely
pseudo-existing objectives of erroneous judgments.
1950 Mind 59 550
Does God perhaps have a special ‘kind’ of existence, like Meinongian
subsistence?
1963 J. N. FINDLAY Meinong's Theory (ed. 2) ix. 291
When things are given as actual or non-actual, we experience their values or
disvalues by serious feelings and unserious desires.
1972 J. N. FINDLAY Meinong's Emotional Presentation p. xv,
We become aware of what Husserl called variously states of affairs
(Sachverhalte) or propositions.
1974 Inquiry 17 303
The most natural interpretation of his approach is that the inner domain is
the Meinongian world of being.
1994 Philos. Forum 25 Spring 232
Ontological proof in any of these guises requires nonstandard Meinongian
rather than standard extensional semantics in order to avoid circularity.
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