Beyond Necessity

Following my post on my return from sunny Greece, the Maverick now has finally conceded that the 'thin' definition of 'exists...

In my earlier post  I argued that the 'thin conception' of existence does not involve any obvious circularity.  We define the verb ...

Nice to know these medieval problems are still a difficulty . Anthony argues that 'every man's parent is male' is false because ...

Sorry for the strange title but it is a literal translation of one of the questions (Latin: Utrum terminus communus supponens verbo de praes...

David Brightly has rightly questioned  whether my argument is valid: Caesar was a man Caesar is not (any longer) a man Some man is not a ...

In an earlier post I asked whether some men are not men. Intuitively all men are men, and so ‘some men are not men’ is false. Yet if the te...

To explain the apparent paradox of the title, there are at least two senses of the term ‘Meinongian’. In the first sense, a Meinongian affir...

In a short paper published in 2000, Thomas Hofweber discusses an attempt to defend Meinong by distinguishing what he calls Quinean and non-Q...