Meinongian Empty Singular Terms

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journal	RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA
issue	RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2021 - 4. Alexius Meinong and His Contemporaries
title	Meinongian Empty Singular Terms
Author	Alberto Voltolini
Publisher	Vita e Pensiero
format	Article \| Pdf
online since	03-2022
doi	10.26350/001050_000308
issn	0035-6247 (print) \| 1827-7926 (digital)
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As is well known, in On Denoting Russell charged Meinong with the accusation of erroneously taking any term grammatically sounding as a singular term as a term that refers to something. In this paper, I want to show that this accusation is wrong. Definitely, for Meinong many, possibly most, singular terms that most philosophers would consider to be empty do refer to something. Yet for him, and for (Neo-)Meinongians more in general, given the principles of object determination they stuck to as relevant for how one thinks of objects, it is quite possible that there are (though relatively few) empty singular terms. keywords Meinong; Thesis of Universal Reference; Characterization Postulate; Principle of the Freedom of Assumption; Strenghtened and Refined Principle of the Freedom of Assumption Author biography Università degli Studi di Torino. Email: alberto.voltolini@unito.it Enter a comment for Meinongian Empty Singular Terms

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As is well known, in On Denoting Russell charged Meinong with the accusation of erroneously taking any term grammatically sounding as a singular term as a term that refers to something. In this paper, I want to show that this accusation is wrong. Definitely, for Meinong many, possibly most, singular terms that most philosophers would consider to be empty do refer to something. Yet for him, and for (Neo-)Meinongians more in general, given the principles of object determination they stuck to as relevant for how one thinks of objects, it is quite possible that there are (though relatively few) empty singular terms.

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Meinong; Thesis of Universal Reference; Characterization Postulate; Principle of the Freedom of Assumption; Strenghtened and Refined Principle of the Freedom of Assumption