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Single Idea 8718
[filed under theme 9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought
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Full Idea
Meinong distinguished between 'existing objects' and 'subsisting objects', and being an object does not imply existence, but only 'having properties'.
Gist of Idea
Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties
Source
report of Alexius Meinong (The Theory of Objects [1904]) by Michèle Friend - Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics 6.8
Book Ref
Friend,Michèle: 'Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics' [Acumen 2007], p.158
A Reaction
Meinong is treated as a joke (thanks to Russell), but this is good. "Father Christmas does not exist, but he has a red coat". He'd better have some sort of existy aspect if he is going to have a property. So he's 'an object'. 'Insubstantial'?
The
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[objects as conceptual entities used in reasoning]:
9825
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A thing is completely determined by all that can be thought concerning it
[Dedekind]
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10535
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Frege's 'objects' are both the referents of proper names, and what predicates are true or false of
[Frege, by Dummett]
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8489
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The concept 'object' is too simple for analysis; unlike a function, it is an expression with no empty place
[Frege]
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8785
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For Frege, objects just are what singular terms refer to
[Frege, by Hale/Wright]
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10278
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Without concepts we would not have any objects
[Frege, by Shapiro]
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9877
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Late Frege saw his non-actual objective objects as exclusively thoughts and senses
[Frege, by Dummett]
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8718
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Meinong says an object need not exist, but must only have properties
[Meinong, by Friend]
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8971
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There are objects of which it is true that there are no such objects
[Meinong]
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21536
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When I perceive a melody, I do not perceive the notes as existing
[Russell]
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7781
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I call an object of thought a 'term'. This is a wide concept implying unity and existence.
[Russell]
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22320
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An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence
[Wittgenstein]
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10796
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If objects are thoughts, aren't we back to psychologism?
[Marcus (Barcan)]
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10531
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There is a modern philosophical notion of 'object', first introduced by Frege
[Dummett]
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9202
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Objects, as well as sentences, can have logical form
[Fine,K]
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8263
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An object is an entity which has identity-conditions
[Lowe]
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