Abstract Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abstract Objects write by E. Zalta. This book was released on 1983-06-30. Abstract Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, I attempt to lay the axiomatic foundations of metaphysics by developing and applying a (formal) theory of abstract objects. The cornerstones include a principle which presents precise conditions under which there are abstract objects and a principle which says when apparently distinct such objects are in fact identical. The principles are constructed out of a basic set of primitive notions, which are identified at the end of the Introduction, just before the theorizing begins. The main reason for producing a theory which defines a logical space of abstract objects is that it may have a great deal of explanatory power. It is hoped that the data explained by means of the theory will be of interest to pure and applied metaphysicians, logicians and linguists, and pure and applied epistemologists. The ideas upon which the theory is based are not essentially new. They can be traced back to Alexius Meinong and his student, Ernst Mally, the two most influential members of a school of philosophers and psychologists working in Graz in the early part of the twentieth century. They investigated psychological, abstract and non-existent objects - a realm of objects which weren't being taken seriously by Anglo-American philoso phers in the Russell tradition. I first took the views of Meinong and Mally seriously in a course on metaphysics taught by Terence Parsons at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst in the Fall of 1978. Parsons had developed an axiomatic version of Meinong's naive theory of objects.
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse
Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse write by Nicholas Asher. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related entities like eventualities. After an introduction to `bottom up, compositional' discourse representation theory (DRT) and to previous work on abstract objects in DRT (notably work on the semantics of the attitudes), the book turns to a semantic analysis of eventuality and abstract object denoting nominals in English. The book then substantially revises and extends the dynamic semantic framework of DRT to develop an analysis of anaphoric reference to abstract objects and eventualities that exploits discourse structure and the discourse relations that obtain between elements of the structure. A dynamic, semantically based theory of discourse structure (SDRT) is proposed, along with many illustrative examples. Two further chapters then provide the analysis of anaphoric reference to propositions VP ellipsis. The abstract entity anaphoric antecedents are elements of the discourse structures that SDRT develops. The final chapter discusses some logical and philosophical difficulties for a semantic analysis of reference to abstract objects. For semanticists, philosophers of language, computer scientists interested in natural language applications and discourse, philosophical logicians, graduate students in linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence.
Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language
Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language write by Friederike Moltmann. This book was released on 2013-03-28. Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friederike Moltmann presents an original approach to philosophical issues to do with abstract objects. She focuses on natural language, and finds that reference to abstract objects such as properties, numbers, and propositions is much more restricted than is generally thought, and she offers a substantially new ontological picture.
Art and Abstract Objects
Art and Abstract Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Abstract Objects write by Christy Mag Uidhir. This book was released on 2012. Art and Abstract Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Art and Abstract Objects presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and core areas of philosophy. A team of contributors examine the ontological nature of repeatable artworks—such as plays, novels, and films—as abstract objects, which are immaterial, causally inert, and outside space-time.
God and Abstract Objects
God and Abstract Objects - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook God and Abstract Objects write by William Lane Craig. This book was released on 2017-09-05. God and Abstract Objects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an exploration and defense of the coherence of classical theism’s doctrine of divine aseity in the face of the challenge posed by Platonism with respect to abstract objects. A synoptic work in analytic philosophy of religion, the book engages discussions in philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaontology. It addresses absolute creationism, non-Platonic realism, fictionalism, neutralism, and alternative logics and semantics, among other topics. The book offers a helpful taxonomy of the wide range of options available to the classical theist for dealing with the challenge of Platonism. It probes in detail the diverse views on the reality of abstract objects and their compatibility with classical theism. It contains a most thorough discussion, rooted in careful exegesis, of the biblical and patristic basis of the doctrine of divine aseity. Finally, it challenges the influential Quinean metaontological theses concerning the way in which we make ontological commitments.
