Jim Platt wrote (in part): > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Piat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" <peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu> > Subject: [peirce-l] Re: Existent vs Real > Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:02:23 -0500 > > > > >> > Dear Iving, > > Thanks for those observation.
------- It is important to understand that I was running on memory here, and I'm certain that there are plenty of folks on this list who can be of better service in respect to explicating Meinong's ontology. Judging from the growing amount of recent books on Meinong, I would think that his ideas have begun to overcome the stigma attached to them by Russell in "On Denoting" (1905). I do recommend looking at Meinong's original, before going to the many commentaries. I recall that even Nick Griffin, a respected Russell scholar, published a paper in which he argued that Russell played somewhat fast and loose with Meinong's ideas, both when reviewing Meinong's writings and when working out the theory of descriptions in "On Denoting" as a way to get rid of existence claims about uch inconvenient entities as round squares, Pegasus and the present King of France. As I recall, the best presentation that Meinong gave of his theory was in his "Ueber Gegenstaende hoeherer Ordnung...", the theme of which, if not the opening line of which, ran something like: "Es gibt keine Vorstellungen ohne etwas zu vorstellen." Irving Anellis -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
