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Zusatztext Priest has provided a very clear and honest accounting of what has been overlooked--non--existents. His book is clearly written and welcome reading. Informationen zum Autor Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has held professorial positions at a number of universities in Australia, the UK, and the USA. He is well known for his work on non-classical logic, and its application to metaphysics and the history of philosophy. Klappentext Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either possible or impossible. This updated second edition includes ten new chapters which develop the ideas of the first edition, explore new areas, and reply to critics. Zusammenfassung Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either possible or impossible. This updated second edition includes ten new chapters which develop the ideas of the first edition, explore new areas, and reply to critics. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Semantics for Intentionality 1: Intentional Operators 2: Identity 3: Objects of Thought 4: Characterization and Descriptions II. In Defence of Non-Being 5: On What There Isn't 6: Fiction 7: Mathematical Objects and Worlds 8: Multiple Denotation III. Impossible Worlds and (other) Non-existent Objects 9: Possibility, Impossibility, and Conceivability 10: Lost in Translation 11: Phenomenological Pointing 12: Poor Non-Existent Objects 13: Other Issues from the First Edition IV: Et Cetera 14: Creating Non-Existents 15: Neighbourhood Semantics 16: Self-Deception 17: Sein Language 18: How the Particular Quantified Become Existentially Loaded Behind Our Backs ...
