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Intro
Editors' Preface
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
ORIGINAL MATERIAL
First Edition Front Matter [Abridged]
Acknowledgements
Chapter 8 The importance of not existing
1. Further classical attempts to deal with discourse about the non-existent: Davidson's paratactic analysis
2. The transparency of neutral semantics
3. Proposed reductions of nonentities to intensional objects, such as propertiesand complexes thereof
and some of their inadequacies
4. Theoretical science without ontological commitments
5. The metalogical trap, and who gets trapped
6. Alleged grounds for preferring a classical theory
7. The importance of the nonexistent in accounting for the existent
8. Illustration 1: Universals. Nonexistence and the general universal problem
9. Illustration 1 continued: Neutral universal theory, and neutral resolution of the problems of transcendental and immanent theories
10. Illustration 2: Perception
11. Other illustrations: value theory, the philosophy of law, the philosophy of mind.
12. The commonsense account of belief: A recapitulation of main theses, and an elaboration of some of these theses
13. Corollaries for the logic and ontology of natural language
Chapter 9 The meaning of existence
1. The basic problem of ontology: criteria for what exists?
2. GROUP 0. Holistic criteria
3. GROUP 1: Spatiotemporality and its variants
4. GROUP 2: Intensional criteria
5. GROUPS 3 and 4, and the Brentano principle improved
6. GROUP 5: Completeness and determinacy criteria
7. GROUP 6: Qualified determinacy and genetic criteria
8. Convergence of the criteria that remain
9. A corollary: the nonexistence of abstractions. In particular, (abstract) classes do not exist
10. Further corollaries: the rejection of empiricism in all its varieties, as false
11. An interlude on the destruction of mathematics by scientific realism
12. The roots of individualism, the strengthened Reference Theory of traditionallogical theory, and the rejection of individual reductionism and holistic reductionism, and of analysis and holism as general methods in philosophy
13. Emerging world hypotheses: qualified naturalism, qualified nominalism and the rejection of physicalism and materialism
Chapter 10 The importance of nonexistent objects and of intensionality in mathematics and the theoretical sciences
1. Is mathematics extensional?
2. Pure mathematics is an existence-free science
3. Science is not extensional either
4. Theoretical science is concerned, essentially, with what does not exist
Chapter 11 Rudiments of noneist philosophies of mathematics and science
1. Outlines of a noneist philosophy of mathematics
2. Noneist reorientation of the foundations and philosophy of science.
Editors' Preface
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
ORIGINAL MATERIAL
First Edition Front Matter [Abridged]
Acknowledgements
Chapter 8 The importance of not existing
1. Further classical attempts to deal with discourse about the non-existent: Davidson's paratactic analysis
2. The transparency of neutral semantics
3. Proposed reductions of nonentities to intensional objects, such as propertiesand complexes thereof
and some of their inadequacies
4. Theoretical science without ontological commitments
5. The metalogical trap, and who gets trapped
6. Alleged grounds for preferring a classical theory
7. The importance of the nonexistent in accounting for the existent
8. Illustration 1: Universals. Nonexistence and the general universal problem
9. Illustration 1 continued: Neutral universal theory, and neutral resolution of the problems of transcendental and immanent theories
10. Illustration 2: Perception
11. Other illustrations: value theory, the philosophy of law, the philosophy of mind.
12. The commonsense account of belief: A recapitulation of main theses, and an elaboration of some of these theses
13. Corollaries for the logic and ontology of natural language
Chapter 9 The meaning of existence
1. The basic problem of ontology: criteria for what exists?
2. GROUP 0. Holistic criteria
3. GROUP 1: Spatiotemporality and its variants
4. GROUP 2: Intensional criteria
5. GROUPS 3 and 4, and the Brentano principle improved
6. GROUP 5: Completeness and determinacy criteria
7. GROUP 6: Qualified determinacy and genetic criteria
8. Convergence of the criteria that remain
9. A corollary: the nonexistence of abstractions. In particular, (abstract) classes do not exist
10. Further corollaries: the rejection of empiricism in all its varieties, as false
11. An interlude on the destruction of mathematics by scientific realism
12. The roots of individualism, the strengthened Reference Theory of traditionallogical theory, and the rejection of individual reductionism and holistic reductionism, and of analysis and holism as general methods in philosophy
13. Emerging world hypotheses: qualified naturalism, qualified nominalism and the rejection of physicalism and materialism
Chapter 10 The importance of nonexistent objects and of intensionality in mathematics and the theoretical sciences
1. Is mathematics extensional?
2. Pure mathematics is an existence-free science
3. Science is not extensional either
4. Theoretical science is concerned, essentially, with what does not exist
Chapter 11 Rudiments of noneist philosophies of mathematics and science
1. Outlines of a noneist philosophy of mathematics
2. Noneist reorientation of the foundations and philosophy of science.