Modal Meinongianism: Conceiving the Impossible

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Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • C. Başkent
  • T.M. Ferguson
Book title Graham Priest on Dialetheism and Paraconsistency
ISBN
  • 9783030253646
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783030253653
Series Outstanding Contributions to Logic
Pages (from-to) 3-19
Number of pages 17
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

Modal Meinongianism—the version of Meinongianism invented by Graham Priest—presupposes that we can think about absolute impossibilities. I defend the view that we can, by tidying up a couple of loose ends in Priest’s arguments to this effect from his book Towards Non-Being.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_2
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85078228539
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