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Barbero, Carola, 2005, Madame Bovary: Something Like a Melody, Milano: Edizioni Albo Versorio. (Scholar)
Berto, Francesco, 2008, “Modal Meinongianism for Fictional Objects,” Metaphysica, 9: 205–218. (Scholar)
Brentano, Franz, 1874, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, translated by Anto C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell, and Linda L. McAlister, introduction by Peter Simons, London: Routledge, 1995. (Scholar)
Braun, David, 2005, “Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names,” Noûs, 39: 596–631. (Scholar)
Brock, Stuart, 2002, “Fictionalism about Fictional Characters,” Noûs, 36: 1–21. (Scholar)
Castañeda, Hector-Neri, 1972, “Thinking and the Structure of the World,” Critica, 6: 43–86. (Scholar)
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Chakrabarti, Arindam, 1997, Denying Existence. The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse (Synthese Library, Volume 261), Dordrecht: Kluwer. (Scholar)
Chisholm, Roderick M., 1972, “Beyond Being and Nonbeing,” in Rudolf Haller (ed.), Jenseits von Sein und Nichtsein. Beiträge zur Meinong-Forschung, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 25–33. (Scholar)
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–––, 2013, The Objects of Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Eklund, Matti, 2005, “Fiction, Indifference, and Ontology,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 71: 557–579. (Scholar)
Everett, Anthony, 2005, “Against Fictional Realism,” Journal of Philosophy, 102: 624–649. (Scholar)
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–––, 2013, The Nonexistent, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Ferrater-Mora, J., 1976/77, “Fictions, Universals, and Abstract Entities,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 37: 353–367. (Scholar)
Findlay, John N., 1963, Meinong’s Theory of Objects and Values, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Fine, Kit, 1981, “Model Theory for Modal Logic – Part III. Existence and Predication,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 10: 293–307. (Scholar)
–––, 1982, “The Problem of Non-existents. I. Internalism,” Topoi, 1: 97–140. (Scholar)
–––, 1983, “Symposium: A Defence of Arbitrary Objects, I,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume), 57: 55–77. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, “Critical Review of Parsons’ Nonexistent Objects,” Philosophical Studies, 45: 94–142. (Scholar)
–––, 1985, Reasoning With Arbitrary Objects, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Frege, Gottlob, 1966, “Function and Concept,” translated by P. T. Geach, in Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, edited by Peter Geach and Max Black, Oxford: Blackwell, 21–41. (Scholar)
Friend, Stacie, 2007, “Fictional Characters,” Philosophy Compass, 2: 141–156. (Scholar)
Geach, Peter Thomas, 1971, [Review of:] Rush Rhees, Without Answers, Journal of Philosophy, 68: 531–532. (Scholar)
Goodman, Jeffrey, 2010, “Fictionalia as Modal Artifacts,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 80: 21–46. (Scholar)
Griffin, Nicholas, 1985–86, “Russell’s Critique of Meinong’s Theory of Objects,” in Rudolf Haller (ed.), Non-Existence and Predication, Amsterdam: Rodopi (= Grazer Philosophische Studien, Volumes 25/26), 375–401. (Scholar)
Grossmann, Reinhardt, 1974, Meinong, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
–––, 2001, “Meinong’s Main Mistake,” in Liliana Albertazzi, Dale Jacquette, and Roberto Poli (eds.), The School of Alexius Meinong (Western Philosophy Series 57), Aldershot: Ashgate, 477–488. (Scholar)
Hale, Bob, 2007, “Into the Abyss”. A critical study of Graham Priest: Towards Non-being. The Logics and Metaphysics of Intentionality, Philosophia Mathematica, 15: 94–110. (Scholar)
Herstein, Ori J., 2013, “Why ‘Nonexistent People’ Do Not Have Zero Wellbeing but No Wellbeing at All,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 30: 136–145. (Scholar)
Hinchliff, Mark, 1988, A Defense of Presentism, Doctoral dissertation, Princeton University. (Scholar)
Hintikka, Jaakko, 1959, “Existential Presuppositions and Existential Commitments,” Journal of Philosophy, 56: 125–137. (Scholar)
–––, 1984, “Are There Nonexistent Objects? Why Not? But Where Are They?” Synthese, 60: 451–458. (Scholar)
Howell, Robert, 1979, “Fictional Objects: How They Are and How They Aren’t,” Poetics, 8: 129–177. (Scholar)
Hume, David, 2000, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Ingarden, Roman, 1931 [1973], The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Literature, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973. [German original first published in 1931.] (Scholar)
Jackson, Frank, 1980, “Ontological Commitment and Paraphrase,” Philosophy, 55: 303–315. (Scholar)
Jacquette, Dale, 1989a, “On the Objects’ Independence from Thought, by Ernst Mally: Translation and Commentary,” Man and World, 22: 215–231. (Scholar)
–––, 1989b, “Mally’s Heresy and the Logic of Meinong’s Object Theory,” History of Philosophical Logic, 10: 1–14. (Scholar)
–––, 1996, Meinongian Logic. The Semantics of Existence and Nonexistence (Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy 11), Berlin–New York: de Gruyter. (Scholar)
Jorgensen, Andrew Kenneth, 2002, Meinong’s Theory of Non-existent Objects (Ph.D. Thesis, Temple University), Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International. (Scholar)
Kant, Immanuel, 2003, Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Norman Kemp Smith, with a new preface by Howard Caygill, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
Kripke, Saul A., 1980, Naming and Necessity, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Kroon, Frederick, 2008, “Much Ado about Nothing: Priest and the Reinvention of Noneism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 76: 199–207. (Scholar)
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–––, 2012, “Characterization and Existence in Modal Meinongianism,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 86: 23–34. (Scholar)
Künne, Wolfgang, 1990, “Perception, Fiction, and Elliptical Speech,” in Klaus Jacobi and Helmut Pape (eds.), Thinking and the Structure of the World. Hector-Neri Castañeda’s Epistemic Ontology Presented and Criticised, Berlin: de Gruyter, 259–267. (Scholar)
Lambert, Karel, 1982, “A Logical Interpretation of Meinong’s Principle of Independence,” Topoi 1–2, 87–96. (Scholar)
–––, 1983, Meinong and the Principle of Independence. Its Place in Meinong’s Theory of Objects and Its Significance in Contemporary Philosophical Logic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Lambert, Karel (ed.), 1991, Philosophical Applications of Free Logic, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1976, Discourse on Metaphysics / Correspondence with Arnauld / Monadology, Chicago: Open Court. (Scholar)
Lejewski, Czeslaw, 1954, “Logic and Existence,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 5: 104–119. (Scholar)
Leonard, Henry S., 1956, “The Logic of Existence,” Philosophical Studies, 7: 49–64. (Scholar)
Lewis, David, 1990, “Noneism or Allism?” Mind 99, 23–31. (Scholar)
–––, 2004, “Tensed Quantifiers,” in D. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Volume 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3–14. (Scholar)
Linsky, Bernard, and Zalta, Edward N., 1994, “In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic,” Philosophical Perspectives, 8: 431–458. (Scholar)
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Macdonald, Margaret, 1954, “The Language of Fiction,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supp. Vol. 27: 165–184. (Scholar)
Mally, Ernst, 1912, Gegenstandstheoretische Grundlagen der Logik und Logistik, (Zeitschrift für Philosophie und philosophische Kritik 148), Leipzig: Barth. (Scholar)
Markosian, Ned, 2004, “A Defense of Presentism,” in D. Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (Volume 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 47–82. (Scholar)
McGinn, Colin, 2000, Logical Properties. Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth, Oxford: Clarendon. (Scholar)
Meinong, Alexius, 1960, “On the Theory of Objects,” in Roderick Chisholm (ed.), Realism and the Background of Phenomenology, Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 76–117. [German original first published in Meinong 1904.] (Scholar)
–––, 1972, Über Möglichkeit und Wahrscheinlichkeit, in Rudolf Haller and Rudolf Kindinger (eds.), Alexius Meinong Gesamtausgabe VI, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt. [Originally published in 1915.] (Scholar)
–––, 1973, “Über die Stellung der Gegenstandstheorie im System der Wissenschaften,” in Rudolf Haller and Rudolf Kindinger (eds.), Alexius Meinong Gesamtausgabe V, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 197–365. [Originally published in 1907.] (Scholar)
Meinong, Alexius (ed.), 1904, Untersuchungen zur Gegenstandstheorie und Psychologie, Leipzig: Barth. (Scholar)
Menzel, Christopher, 2014, “Possible Worlds,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/possible-worlds/>. (Scholar)
Milne, Daniel Alexander, 2013, “Everett’s Dilemma: How Fictional Realists Can Cope with Ontic Vagueness,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 88: 33–54. (Scholar)
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Nolan, Daniel, 2008, “Properties and Paradox in Graham Priest’s Towards Non-Being,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 76 (1): 191–198. (Scholar)
Noth, Winfried, 2006, “Representations of Imaginary, Nonexistent, or Nonfigurative Objects,” Cognitio: Revista de Filosofía, 7: 277–291. (Scholar)
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Parsons, Terence, 1975, “A Meinongian Analysis of Fictional Objects,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1: 73–86. (Scholar)
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