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There is good evidence that the latter is the case, for Parsons 'ontology, as a typically Meinongian ontology, includes the round square and other impossible objects, which the possibilist ontology does not include.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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Charles Crittenden offers a view in a Meinongian spirit but with a later-Wittgensteinian twist (Crittenden 1991).
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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Lewis's discussion of how the non-Meinongian should understand Routley's theory (Lewis 1990) is helpful in this connection.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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On the other hand, the controversy with Russell also became an incentive for the development of Meinongian versions of logic and semantics as a serious alternative to classical logic and semantics.
Salvation Santa 2009
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If Julius Caesar's entirely new right finger satisfying (a) and (b) is to be a Meinongian object of Parsons 'theory, the best candidate appears to be a non-existent incomplete object corresponding to the set of properties, {being a finger, belonging to Julius Caesar's right hand, being never burnt}.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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Meinongian theories overcome the problems of impossibility and non-uniqueness in a straightforward way.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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They are thus united in resisting Bertrand Russell's criticism of Meinong, which mandates analyzing sentences containing a definite description, like the one above concerning the sixth right finger of Julius Caesar, as general statements rather than singular statements (Russell 1905); see 3.1.2 for a particularly famous piece of Russell's criticism and how two leading Meinongian theories handle it.
Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009
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Shifting to the quotient structures, as Quine suggested, does not induce a "baroque, Meinongian ontology"
Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007
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Meinongian ontological arguments; experiential ontological arguments; mereological ontological arguments; and
Ontological Arguments Oppy, Graham 2007
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Second, the Meinongian interpretations of Barnes (1972),
Ontological Arguments Oppy, Graham 2007
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