Was Meinong Only Pretending
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10352296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Kroon (0000-0002-3785-5331, corresponding author), Frederick W Kroon |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499-499 |
| Publication date | 1992-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2108206 |
| OpenAlex | W2325480617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
I am grateful to audiences at the Australian National University and the University of Queensland for useful comments on an earlier version of this paper, in particular J. J. C. Smart, D. Braddon-Mitchell, the late D. Mannison and T. Nuyen. I owe special thanks to Richard Sylvan for helpful criticism of both my own project and 'pretence' theories in general, and to Ed Zalta and an anonymous referee for numerous useful and incisive comments leading to substantial improvements in the main argument of the paper. 2 Meinong's most famous declaration remains Meinong (1904), although it is one of the contentions of the present paper that neo-Meinongians should also pay more attention than they standardly do to such works as Meinong (1910). The (growing) list of neoMeinongians include Hector-Neri Castafieda, Roderick Chisholm, Terence Parsons, William Rapaport, Ernest Sosa, Richard Sylvan/Routley, and Ed Zalta (see the partial bibliography at the end of the paper). 3 Pre-theoretical intuitions may, of course, differ, even in the case of neo-Meinongians. Zalta (1983) and (1988) is one who stresses the literal falsity of the unadorned 'Hamlet is a prince of Denmark', and argues for the literal truth of a form like 'In the Shakespearean play Hamlet is a prince of Denmark' (that is, the unadorned sentence prefaced by a 'story' or 'in-the-fiction' operator). Zalta thinks that the differing attitudes to these sentences marks an important difference between two opposing Meinongian camps, to be discussed in section 2. (See also note 22 below.)
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1991 - 2023 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |