Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. Introduction 1
3. Part One. Meinong’s Theory of Objects
4. I. Elements of Object Theory 7
5. II. Formal Semantic Paradox in Meinong’s Object Theory 12
6. III. Meinong’s Theory of Defective Objects 37
7. IV. The Object Theory Intentionality of Ontological Commitment 56
8. V. Logic, Mind, and Meinong 70
9. VI. Meinong’s Doctrine of the Modal Moment 80
10. Part Two. Object Theory Ο
11. I. Syntax, Formation and Inference Principles 95
12. II. Semantics 101
13. III. Developments of the Logic 114
14. Part Three. Philosophical Problems and Applications
15. I. Twardowski On Content and Object 193
16. II. Private Language and Private Mental Objects 200
17. III. God an Impossible Meinongian Object 230
18. IV. Meinongian Models of Scientific Law 238
19. V. Aesthetics and Meinongian Logic of Fiction 256
20. VI. The Paradox of Analysis 265
21. Bibliography 269
22. Index 285
23. 298-302 298