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Full Idea
We can quantify over Meinongian objects by quantifying for real over property bundles (such as the bundle of roundness and squareness).
Gist of Idea
We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties
Source
David Lewis (Noneism or Allism? [1990], p.159)
Book Ref
Lewis,David: 'Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology' [CUP 1999], p.159
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
15533 | We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis] |
15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |