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Possible Worlds and Other Nonexistent Objects

Author(s): Maciej Sendłak
Subject(s): Philosophy, Metaphysics
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: possible worlds; impossible worlds; nonexistent objects; ontological pluralism; Alexius Meinong

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the paper is the ontological status of actual and non-actual worlds. According to one version of contemporary Meinongianism, while the actual world exists, merely possible and impossible worlds are nonexistent objects. Moreover, they do not have any other form of being.The aim of the paper is to indicate some problematic consequences of this kind of Meinongianism, and to sketch an alternative view, which is based on ontological pluralism—the view according to which there are many kinds of being.

  • Issue Year: 65/2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 115-136
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish