Language, Truth and Ontology

By: K. Mulligan (Editor)

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All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen, were presented at the colloquium on "Properties", Zinal, June 1-3, 1990. It was, incidentally, at the second of these two colloquia that the European Society for Analytic Philosophy came into being. The fathers of analytic philosophy - Moore and Russell - were in no doubt that ontology or metaphysics as well as the topics oflanguage, truth and logic constituted the core subject-matter of their "analytic realism", 1 for the task of metaphysics as they conceived things was the description of 2 the world. And logic and ontology are indissolubly linked in the system of the grandfather of analytic philosophy, Frege. After the Golden Age of analytic philosophy - in Cambridge and Austria - opposition to realism as well as the "linguistic turn" contributed for a long time to the eclipse of ontology. 3 Thanks in large measure to the work of some of the senior contributors to the present volume - Roderick Chisholm, Herbert Hochberg, David Armstrong and Karel Lambert - ontology and metaphysics now enjoy once again the central position they occupied some eighty years ago in the heyday of analytic philosophy.

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Preface
The Basic Ontological Categories	p. 1
The Basic Concepts	p. 2
Individual Things and Events	p. 5
Beginnings and Processes	p. 5
Necessary Substance	p. 12
Properties	p. 14
Why We Should Admit Properties	p. 15
Universals vs. Tropes	p. 22
On Negative and Disjunctive Properties	p. 28
Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals	p. 37
Characteristica Universalis	p. 48
Preamble	p. 48
From Leibniz to Frege	p. 49
Directly Depicting Diagrams vs. Existential Graphs	p. 51
Some Conditions on a Directly Depicting Language	p. 53
The Oil-Painting Principle	p. 56
Primitives and Definitions	p. 57
Substance	p. 64
Accidents	p. 67
Sub-Atoms (Mutually Dependent Parts of Atoms)	p. 70
Boundaries and Boundary Dependence	p. 71
Universals	p. 73
Definite Descriptions and the Theory of Objects	p. 78
A New Explanation	p. 78
An Application of the Foregoing Explanation	p. 82
Truth Makers, Truth Predicates, and Truth Types	p. 87
Worlds and States of Affairs: How Similar Can They Be?	p. 118
Motivation	p. 118
Salmon's Counterexample	p. 120
The Branching Conception	p. 125
Was Frege Right about Variable Objects?	p. 133
Logical Atomism and Its Ontological Refinement: A Defense	p. 157
Logical Atomism, What	p. 157
Examples of the Avoidance of Unnecessary Facts	p. 161
Disputed Case I: Negative Propositions	p. 163
Disputed Case II: Universal Generalization	p. 166
Other Higher Order Functors	p. 168
Statistical Generalizations and Probability	p. 170
Laws of Nature and Causality	p. 171
Applied Mathematics, Dispositions, and Others	p. 174
Resolution and Ultimate Facts	p. 175
Intentionality and Tendency: How to Make Aristotle Up-To-Date	p. 180
The Problem	p. 181
Aristotle	p. 182
Newtonian Self-Change	p. 183
Intentionality	p. 186
Temporally Extended Entities	p. 188
The Duality of Intentions	p. 189
Formal Ontology Today	p. 190
Leibniz on Properties and Individuals	p. 193
Index of Names	p. 205
Index of Subjects	p. 208
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