E-LOGOS 2020, 27(1):4-20 | DOI: 10.18267/j.e-logos.471

A Meinongian Empirical Case Based on Galician ‘Meigas’

Olga Ramírez Calle
Department of Humanities and the Arts, University of Saint Louis Missouri, Campus Madrid, 28003 Madrid, Spain

This paper aspires to meet a philosophical challenge posed to the author to give treatment to what was seen as a particularly nice Meinongian case; namely the case of Galician Meigas. However, through the playful footpaths of enchanted Galician Meigas, I rehabilitate some relevant discussion on the justification of belief formation and come to some poignant philosophical insights regarding the understanding of possibilities. I hope both the leading promoter of the challenge and, of course, other philosophical readers are satisfied with the outcome.

Keywords: Fiction, Virtue Epistemology, Possible Worlds, Numbers

Received: January 20, 2020; Accepted: May 6, 2020; Prepublished online: May 26, 2020; Published: September 1, 2020  Show citation

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