Volume 25/26, 1985/86
Non-Existence and Predication
William J. Rapaport
Pages 61-95
Non-Existent Objects and Epistemological Ontology
This essay examines the role of non-existent objects in "epistemological ontology" — the study of the entities that make thinking possible. An earlier revision of Meinong's Theory of Objects is reviewed, Meinong's notions of Quasisein and Außersein are discussed, and a theory of Meinongian objects as "combinatorially possible" entities is presented.