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Noneist Explorations II

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 432)

Editors: Hyde, Dominic

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58864-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-58863-2

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 11, 2020

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The importance of not existing

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: 1 –114

[An adequate theory of meaning and truth is semantically important. Such a theory necessarily includes in its analysis nonentities, items that do not exist. So what is semantically, and hence logically, important is bound to include nonentities. In virtue of the modifier “semantically”, the first...
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The meaning of existence

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: 115 –208

[Existence is, as Russell once remarked (1937, p. 449), a prerogative of only some among objects. Some things still exist, e.g. natural forests, and some things do not exist, e.g. dryades.]
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The importance of nonexistent objects and of intensionality in mathematics and the theoretical sciences

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: 209 –234

[The more comprehensive case for the importance of nonentities includes, as especially significant, their role in mathematics and their roles in the theoretical explanations of science – the whole business, that is, of appealing to ideal simplified objects, which suitably approximate real...
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Rudiments of noneist philosophies of mathematics and science

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: 235 –288

[A noneist philosophy of the sciences consists, in large measure, in elaborating and applying the main theses of noneism already defended. A first contentious feature then of such a philosophy of the sciences is its nonreductionism. The theoretical sciences are thoroughly and irreducibly...
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How the theory elaborated differs from other theories of objects in its theses and objectives

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: 289 –387

[Theories of objects are rare in the history of philosophy. The main streams of Western philosophy from its inception to modern times and most of the lesser and minor tributaries are, with but few exceptions (already noted), referential in nature. Most leading positions incorporate central facets...
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Correction to: Noneist Explorations II: The Sylvan Jungle — Volume 3

Routley, Richard; Routley, Val

Pages: C1 –C1

[Correction to: Dominic Hyde (ed.), Noneist Explorations II: The Sylvan Jungle — Volume 3, Synthese Library 432, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58864-9]

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