Modal Meinongianism : conceiving the impossible

Berto, Franz

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02/01/2020

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Modal Meinongianism—the version of Meinongianism invented by Graham Priest—presupposes that we can think about absolute impossibilities. I defend the view that we can, by tidying up a couple of loose ends in Priest’s arguments to this effect from his book Towards Non-Being.

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Berto , F 2020 , Modal Meinongianism : conceiving the impossible . in C Başkent & T Macaulay Ferguson (eds) , Graham Priest on Paraconsistency and Dialetheism . Outstanding contributions to logic , vol. 18 , Springer , Cham , pp. 3-19 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_2

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Graham Priest on Paraconsistency and Dialetheism

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_2

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Copyright © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25365-3_2

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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21211