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22Truth and Reference Beyond ExistenceDissertation, University of Manchester. 2021.For the last seventy years, metaphysics within the analytic tradition has been dominated by Quinean metaontology. This metaontologyâs main claim is that what the existential quantifier ranges over in first-order predicate logic translations of true sentences exists. So, everything exists. In this thesis, however, I provide a defence of Noneism, which is a species of Meinongianism. Whereas Meinongianism claims that some things do not exist, Noneism claims that such nonexistent objects have no b…Read more
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51Now, Imagine an Actually Existing Unicorn: On Russellian Worries for Modal MeinongianismAxiomathes 31 (3): 365-380. 2020.Modal Meinongianism provides the semantics of sentences involving intentional verbs Priest. To that end, Modal Meinongianism employs a pointed non-normal quantified modal logic model. Like earlier Meinongian views Modal Meinongianism has a characterisation principle, that claims that any condition whatsoever is satisfied by some object in some world. Recently, Everett has proposed an argument against QCP that, if successful, gives rise to problems identical to those Russell raised for Naïve Mein…Read more
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Russellian and Direct Reference Theories of Meaning |
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