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Objects
Edited by Daniel Z. Korman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Assistant editor: Andrew Higgins (Illinois State University)
About this topic
| Summary | Objects are subjects of predication: anything of which something can be said is an object. So construed, the category of objects covers not only material beings like mountains, baseballs, and electrons, but also abstracta (numbers, properties, relations, set). and even non-existent entities if there be any. The papers contained herein concern the nature and existence of different varieties of objects. Some of the most prominent topics include the relation between an objects and the properties it bears; the relation between an object and its parts (mereology); the identity relation that holds between an object and itself; and the persistence of objects through time. |
| Key works | For work on the nature and existence of abstract objects, see Quine 1953, Bealer 1982, Armstrong 1989, and Dorr 2008. For work on persistence, see Hirsch 1982, Hawley 2001, and Sider 2003. For work on identity, see Black 1952, Kripke 1971, and Adams 1979. |
| Introductions | For an introduction to the notion of a object, see Laycock 2010. For abstract objects, see Rosen 2008. For material objects, see van Inwagen 1990 and Korman & Barker 2025. |
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Abstract Objects (607 | 513)
Properties* (4,539 | 262)
Ontology of Music* (646 | 326)
Fictional Characters* (400)
Ontology of Mathematics* (3,279 | 535)
Words* (549)
The Nature of Sets* (428 | 141)
Numbers* (467)
Identity (2,033 | 786)
Composition as Identity* (153)
Contingent Identity (80)
Theories of Personal Identity* (2,695 | 1,257)
Relative Identity* (107)
Vague Identity (186)
Criteria of Identity (133)
Identity, Misc (573)
Material Objects (2,177 | 418)
Artifacts (336)
Coincident Objects (267)
Composition as Identity* (153)
Contingent Identity* (80)
Hylomorphism* (80)
Material Constitution (362)
Mereological Universalism* (176)
Mereological Nihilism* (203)
Monism* (150)
Problem of the Many (99)
Stuff (168)
Vague Objects (122)
Material Objects, Misc (199)
Mereology (1,691 | 657)
Composition as Identity (153)
Mereological Nihilism (203)
Simples and Gunk (129)
Mereology, Misc (252)
Ontology of Mathematics* (3,279 | 535)
Nonexistent Objects (183)
Objects and Properties (533 | 120)
Persistence (1,649 | 411)
Endurance (184)
Perdurance (188)
Relative Identity (107)
Stage Theory (98)
Temporary Intrinsics (43)
Persistence, Misc (119)
Objects, Misc (81)
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- Concepts, Pictures, and Ways of Seeing A Wittgensteinian Analysis of Capacity, Erosion, Reconfiguration, and Continuance.Morteza Niami - 2026 - Tehran: Zenodo.This article examines the philosophical status of four central concepts in Morteza Niami’s ontology of Finite Continuance: capacity, erosion, reconfiguration, and continuance. The central problem concerns their status as philosophical concepts. Do they explain structural features of finite existence, or do they primarily provide pictures through which finite existence is seen in a particular way? The article develops a Wittgensteinian response that rejects the assumption that explanation and representation constitute mutually exclusive functions. Drawing on Wittgenstein’s later discussions of language-games, grammar, (...)
- Seeing the Pandemic through the Mask: The Production and Distribution of Immune Space.Dilan Alataş & Oğuz Karayemiş - manuscriptThis study attempts to view the COVID-19 pandemic by placing the life cycle of the surgical mask at its centre. Traversing the various levels and layers that take part in the mask’s agency, from production, supply, distribution, inspection and use to its transformation into waste, it aims to capture the administrative problems, the injustices of accessibility, and the alliances and conflicts that the mask generated over the course of the pandemic. The research shows the mask to be an actant of (...)
- Ekoloji ve Ekonomi I: Sermayenin Girişimleri ve Yeryüzünün Mukavemeti.Oğuz Karayemiş - 2026 - İstanbul: Başıbozuk e-Yayıncılık.“Ekoloji ve Ekonomi I: Sermayenin Girişimleri ve Yeryüzünün Mukavemeti”, Oğuz Karayemiş tarafından kaleme alınan ve “Ekoloji ve Ekonomi” üçlemesinin ilk halkasını oluşturan kuramsal bir çalışmadır. Kitap, Karl Marx’ın ekonomi politik eleştirisini “yeni metafizik” (yeni materyalizm, nesne yönelimli ontoloji) ve posthümanist düşünceyle diyaloğa sokarak, ekonomiyi insan merkezli bir faaliyet olmaktan çıkarıp ekolojinin içine gömülü bir “politik ontoloji” olarak yeniden tanımlamayı hedefler. Çalışmada ekolojik krizin kaynağında yeryüzünün sermayeye karşı mukavemetinin yattığı, üretim ve sınıf mücadelesi süreçlerinin yalnızca insana değil insan olmayan eyleyicilere de (...)
- Yönelimin Grounding'den Kategorik Ayrımı: Ω-Önceliği Argümanı.Ali Asaf Karamollaoğlu (ed.) - 2026Bu çalışma, Ontropi / Yönelim Ontolojisi I adlı sistematik çalışmanın bir bölümüdür. Metinde, ontolojik yönelimin (orientation) çağdaş metafizikteki grounding/priority ilişkilerine indirgenip indirgenemeyeceği sorusu ele alınmaktadır. Savunulan temel iddia şudur: Yönelim, token düzeyindeki grounding ilişkileriyle açıklanamayan, tip-düzeyinde ayrı bir ontolojik kategori olarak düşünülmelidir. Bu iddia, “Ω-Önceliği Argümanı” adı altında biçimsel olarak geliştirilmekte; ardından çağdaş grounding teorileri, Heidegger’in onto-teolojik unutuş eleştirisi ve Graham Harman’ın nesne-yönelimli ontolojisiyle karşılaştırılmaktadır.Çalışma, yönelim kavramını henüz kesin olarak “indirgenemez ilkel” ilan etmemekte; onu güçlü bir aday ontolojik kategori olarak (...)
- «Aus Finster Licht»: note su luce-tenebra nella teosofia di Jakob Böhme.Ludovica Boi - 2020 - Il Pensare 9:6-21.In this essay I try to inspect the interpretation of the light-darkness dialectic by Jakob Böhme (1575-1624): it is a fight, which involves every aspect of the theosophist's thought, from psychology to natural philosophy, from morality to gnoseology, from ontology to theology. Starting from the reference to Böhme’s famous vision of sunshine reflected by the dark surface of zinc, I try to characterize the experience of “seeing” as the cornerstone of a sensorial mystic, understood as an attempt to translate what (...)
- Infinite Finites (∞x) Logicized (Level 5).David Bergeron - manuscriptAbstract: This short paper consists in the logicization of the level 5 (infinite finites) of AOVP. -/- Résumé : ce court texte consiste en la logicisation du niveau 5 (les finis infinis) de l'AOVP.
- The Empty Place and Finite Continuance: Reconfigurative Capacity, Singularity, and the Ontological Threshold.Morteza Niami - 2026 - Tehran: Zenodo.The concept of the empty place names a critical ontological problem at the intersection of identity, language, singularity, and determination. Contemporary philosophy has frequently approached threshold spaces through the problem of inclusion and exclusion, particularly in the work of Giorgio Agamben, whose analyses of singularity, potentiality, apparatus, exception, and bare life have reshaped the philosophical understanding of the zone between inside and outside. This article develops an alternative interpretation through the philosophy of finite continuance. It argues that the empty place (...)
- Why The Axiom Of Continuity Must Be Incomplete In The Meeting With Physical Nature (2nd edition).Bjørn L. S. Riedel - 2026 - Zenodo.Remove from this listExport citationBookmark
- The Principle of Contradiction in Aristotle. A Critical Study.Jan Łukasiewicz & Holger R. Heine - 2021 - Honolulu: Topos Books.Jan Łukasiewicz’ work on Aristotle and the principle of contradiction, first published in 1910, presents one of the first and truly pioneering investigation into the logical and metaphysical foundations of this principle. Łukasiewicz applies the newly developed analytic tools of mathematical logic to Aristotle’s seminal defense of the principle in Book IV of the Metaphysics and aims to show that the principle is not nearly as secure as the generally accepted, mostly uncritical, and often dogmatic belief in its universal truth (...)
- Matter Primitivism.Pendaran Roberts - manuscriptI present a novel view on the nature of matter: Primitivism. This view is the conjunction of two theses: 1. Matter can make up anything that takes up space; 2. Matter is not composed of anything. I argue for this view in depth, answer questions, and explain major implications, such as the conceptual dissolution of the mind/body problem.
- Gedächtnis des Ortes ohne Subjekt: Zu einer Erosions-Ontologie der räumlich-materiellen Inbesitznahme Eine Synthese aus Phänomenologie, Neuem Materialismus und der Theorie des endlichen Kontinuums.Morteza Niami - 2026 - Tehran: Zenodo.Die Frage nach dem Gedächtnis des Ortes wird in der gegenwärtigen Philosophie zumeist unter der Voraussetzung behandelt, dass der Ort nur im Bezug auf ein Subjekt, das ihn erfährt oder interpretiert, Bedeutung und Gedächtnis erlangt. Selbst die fortgeschrittensten phänomenologischen Ansätze zum Ort – von Edward Casey bis Dylan Trigg – betonen zwar die fundamentale Rolle des Ortes für die Bildung von Gedächtnis und Identität, bleiben jedoch der Auffassung verhaftet, dass Sinnesübertragung an Strukturen des Bewusstseins, der gelebten Erfahrung oder des narrativen (...)
- From Pure Systems Philosophy to an Existential Philosophy of Erosion: Reconstructing Emergence in Far-from-Equilibrium Systems Through an Ontology of Finite Continuity.Morteza Niami - 2026 - Tehran: Zenodo.Abstract -/- Contemporary theories of emergence grounded in far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics successfully explain how complex order arises through instability, fluctuation, and self-organization. However, these approaches generally remain descriptive, treating emergence as a property of physical or informational systems while neglecting its existential and normative dimensions. This article argues that a comprehensive philosophy of emergence requires four conceptual reconstructions that transform a systems-theoretical model into an existential ontology. Building upon the concepts of finite continuity, erosion, threshold sufficiency, and structural subjectivity, the paper (...)
- Advice for nonactualists: embrace metaphysically vague ficta.Jeffrey Goodman - 2026 - Philosophical Quarterly 76 (3):1218-1228.I here critically discuss “the Selection Problem”, a vexing problem for metaphysicians who are realists about fictional entities and who further claim that such entities are identified with nonactualia. The Selection Problem arises due to the fact that the nonactualist is forced to defend the view that ficta are somehow discovered, or selected, by authors who then present them to us so we may entertain their exploits. But how exactly does an author manage this when there are a vast number (...)
- ACTIVE VACUITY LOGICIZED. A Retraction for Emission and Being.David Bergeron - 2026 - Dissertation, Independent ScholarAbstract: This small paper presents a logicization of “possibilizing-Vacuity” “V” -/- Résumé : ce court texte est une logicisation de la « Vacuité possibilisante ».
- The Chisel and the Echo: Why Artificial Intelligence Cannot Exit the Map (A Companion Paper to The Invariant Compass).Joko Arifiyanto - manuscriptThis paper demonstrates that Large Language Models, by virtue of their probabilistic architecture, are structurally incapable of grounding any token in lived experience. Drawing on the framework of The Invariant Compass, the analysis shows that a family of simple diagnostic questions can serve as a definitive test for the presence of a Sensor: any query that requires feeling absence, waiting, or the not-yet-occurred cannot be answered by a system that has never felt the hole of the future. The paper identifies (...)
- The Ogdoadic Synthesis: A Dual‑Aspect Cosmopsychist Framework Illuminating the Eastern and Western Esoteric Light Body (2nd edition).Vlad Tverdohleb - forthcoming - Zenodo.Materialist science cannot account for subjective experience (the “hard problem”), nor for a growing body of anomalous data—spontaneous remissions, non‑local healing, verified past‑life memories, and the consistent reports of a luminous “body of light” across Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. The Ogdoadic Synthesis offers a unified architecture that resolves these gaps by placing consciousness, not matter, at the foundation of reality. It integrates (1) cosmopsychist dual‑aspect monism and Faixat’s three‑facet ontology (non‑dual absolute, potential relative, spatiotemporal relative); (2) quantum biology, bioelectricity, (...)
- Physics "de-objectivated".David Bergeron - 2026 - Dissertation, Independent ScholarAbstract: This paper pursues our system through the de-objectivation of (parallel to mathematics) physics and its object. -/- Résumé : ce document poursuit notre système par une dé-objectivation (parallèle aux mathématiques) de la physique et de son objet.
- Design, Everydayness and the Ilussion of Function.Michalle Gal - 2026 - In Elisabetta Di Stefano, Lisa Giombini & Bálint Veres, Designing Everyday Experience: Objects, Space, Habits. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 3-18.This essay proposes a visualist alternative to intentionalist functionalism in design theory, challenging its assumptions of stable function and linear relationships between a designer’s intent, an object’s form, and its proper use. Functionalism’s focus on predetermined functions fails to align with the dynamic and generative nature of everyday life, where design objects invite diverse, spontaneous engagements through their visual affordances. The visualist perspective emphasizes the expressive and emergent qualities of design objects, including the non-functional visual properties of function, arguing that (...)
- The Skeptic and the Veridicalist.Yuval Avnur - 2023 - Cambridge University Press.
- Proof From the Predomain: Prior to the Subject–Object Split.Nikita Shchevyev - manuscriptThis work argues that there exists a structural condition prior to the subject–object split — a region designated the predomain — and that from this region a differential relation H > K can be derived, where H denotes the horizon of potential manifestation and K denotes any actualized content. The argument proceeds in strict Euclidean form through twenty-six numbered propositions, culminating in the Midchain Theorem and the Twin Theorem. Seven structural operators formalize the internal relations of the predomain; their interaction (...)
- Metafysiikan perusteet.Jani Hakkarainen & Matias Slavov (eds.) - 2026 - Helsinki: Gaudeamus.Metafysiikan Perusteet [The Basics of Metaphysics] is the first Finnish-language textbook on contemporary metaphysics. It contains introductions to the following issues: (i) what is metaphysics?, (ii) objects, properties and kinds, (iii) events and processes, (iv) metaphysical grounding, (v) modalities and essences, (vi) powers and causation, (vii) laws of nature, (viii) time, (ix) mathematics, (x) mind, (xi) free will, (xii) social ontology, (xiii) metaphysics of gender, (xiv) metaphysics in continental philosophy.
- Articulation Metaphysics.Benjamin Owino - manuscriptMetaphysical inquiry is often taken to begin with an inventory of what exists—objects, processes, or structures whose intelligibility is presupposed rather than explained. This paper argues that such approaches begin too late. Before entities can be catalogued, they must already be available as determinately intelligible. The central task of metaphysics, therefore, is not to enumerate what exists, but to account for how intelligibility itself becomes possible. -/- To address this task, the paper examines the practices through which intelligibility is achieved (...)
- (1 other version)Design’s Ontology: Emergent Properties and Affordance.Michalle Gal - 2026 - Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 9 (3):13-42.This essay proposes a visualist ontological framework for understanding design, rooted fundamentally in the theories of emergent properties and affordances. Opposing functionalist and intentionalist paradigms, the framework underscores design’s visuality and relational engagement as its core ontological elements. The concepts of emergent properties and affordances are presented as deeply interconnected, reflecting their philosophical and practical relationship within the ontology of design. Emergent properties are conceptualized as qualities that do not reside intrinsically within individual components but instead arise through the dynamic (...)
- El to ti ēn einai en su acaecerse ontológico.Evans Civit & Jorge Horacio - 2007 - Ciudad de Mendoza [Argentina]: Editorial de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
- L'esperienza delle cose.Andrea Borsari (ed.) - 1992 - Genova: Marietti 1820.
Abstract Objects
- Tomayto, Tomahto: How Words Have Their Instances.Nurbay Irmak - 2026 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 103 (1-2):142-161.This article investigates the ontological mechanism through which words come to have their instances across various physical media. I argue that form-theoretic accounts that reduce words to specific orthographic or phonological structures, as well as intention-based models that lack sufficient normative constraints, fail to provide an adequate account of word instantiation. I further argue that even sophisticated versions of type realism that treat words as norm types, entities capable of admitting both properly and improperly formed tokens, fail to adequately explain (...)
- Structural Nominalism.Lucas Gage - manuscriptThis paper defends Structural Nominalism, the view that abstract objects do not exist as mind-independent substances, but that real structural regularities instantiated in the physical world are sufficient to ground mathematical and logical necessity without appeal to a Platonic realm, a divine mind, or any transcendent ontological category. The paper argues, first, that immaterial objects fail a basic causal criterion of existence (Quine, 1948; Armstrong, 1978); second, that abstractions are functional shadows, real as states of physical cognitive systems, unreal as (...)
- AI for Continental Philosophers (and Others Interested).Martin Korth - manuscriptAI is not ONE system, it wasn’t suddenly pulled out of a drawer by companies, and it is (at least for now) not a direct path to human intelligence. The core problems that current developments are now encountering are neither new nor completely misunderstood. They point to fundamental philosophical problems surrounding the themes of information and meaning, abstraction and universals—to which continental philosophers have also always made substantial contributions. The aim of this text is to spark greater interest among continental (...)
- Musical Mereology.Alejandro Di Rienzo - 2026 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 107 (2):58-73.I develop an axiomatic system of mereology that accounts for the ways in which musical works can be said to have parts. I distinguish two fundamental modes of composition that musical works exhibit: successive composition, whereby sound events are concatenated in time, and simultaneous composition, whereby sound events occur at the same time. I define various relations of parthood in terms of these operations and study the general principles governing them. I prove that they share some basic properties with the (...)
- KI für kontinental Philosophierende (und andere Interessierte).Martin Korth - manuscriptKI ist nicht EIN System, ist nicht plötzlich von Unternehmen aus der Schublade gezogen worden und ist (zumindest derzeit noch) kein gerader Weg hin zur menschlichen Intelligenz. Die Kern-Probleme, in die die Entwicklungen jetzt laufen, sind weder neu, noch vollkommen unverstanden. Sie verweisen auf grundlegende philosophische Probleme rund um die Themen Information und Bedeutung, Abstraktion und Universalien – zu denen auch kontinental Philosophierende immer schon Substantielles beigetragen haben. Ziel des vorliegenden Textes ist es, stärker kontinental Philosophierende (und andere Interessierte) für (...)
- Fictional Names, Theoretical Names, and Indeterminate Existence.Alex Fisher - 2026 - Philosophical Studies 183:1465-1481.Creationism about fictional and theoretical names holds that seemingly empty names such as ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and ‘Vulcan’ refer to abstract objects created by authors and scientific theorists. This paper poses an objection to creationism: in cases of fiction writing or scientific theorising where it is indeterminate whether one succeeds or fails in referring to an object in the world, creationism renders it metaphysically indeterminate whether an abstract object is created. However, the indeterminate existence of abstract objects constitutes an untenable metaphysical (...)
- The Abstract Form Hypothesis: Dissolving the Abstract-Concrete Distinction through Linguistic Pragmatics.Schellekens Yehoshaphat - manuscriptContemporary metaphysics remains bifurcated by the abstract– concrete distinction, yet struggles to provide a unified account of how “causally inert” entities play an indispensable role in concrete human practice. This paper introduces the Abstract Form (AF) Hypothesis, which reframes abstractness not as an intrinsic property of objects, but as a situational effect of linguistic pragmatics. I argue that AFs arise to address a cross-linguistic structural constraint termed the “problem of subordinate clauses”: the inability of natural language to embed bare assertions (...)
- The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy.Stefano Di Bella & Tad M. Schmaltz (eds.) - 2017 - New York, US: OUP Usa.The ancient topic of universals was central to scholastic philosophy, which raised the question of whether universals exist as Platonic forms, as instantiated Aristotelian forms, as concepts abstracted from singular things, or as words that have universal signification. It might be thought that this question lost its importance after the decline of scholasticism in the modern period. However, the fourteen contributions to this volume indicate that the issue of universals retained its vitality in modern philosophy. Modern philosophers in fact were (...)
- Destroying Artworks.Marcus Rossberg - 2012 - In Christy Mag Uidhir, Art and abstract objects. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. pp. 62-83.This chapter investigates ways of destroying artworks, assuming they are abstract objects, or works of a particular artform, where they are assumed to be abstracta. If artworks are eternal, mind-independent abstracta, and hence discovered not created, they cannot be destroyed, but merely forgotten or become inaccessible. Alternative conceptions of artworks as abstract, hold that there might be logical space for destruction. Artworks as abstracta have been likened to impure sets (concrete things as opposed to pure sets, i.e. nothing but other (...)Find it on Amazon.com (collection)Remove from this list Direct downloadExport citationBookmark 9 citations
- Rethinking Reality.Ilexa Yardley - 2022 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.It’s all about the conservation of a circle (pi-diameter-circumference) (ambiguous and natural concrete abstraction) (multi-channel mathematics) (ontology of mathematics) (ontology of mind) (ontology of ontology) (epistemology of epistemology) (ontology of technology, information, computing) (ontology of observation and measurement) (intelligent design) (metaphysical naturalism) (individualism). The 'wave' of the 'future.'.
- If Platonic abstract objects exist and if humans can process them, then we should be able to find experimental evidence for this at the Neuroscience/Psychology interface.Martin Korth - manuscriptOver the last years, ‘sub-symbolic’ deep neural network (DNN) based artificial intelligence (AI) systems have run into all sorts of problems, especially with ‘hallucinations’ and in general with reliability.(REFs) One way to conceptualize this is to understand sub-symbolic AI to lack proper world models,(REFs) i.e. some type of proper mapping of what’s supposedly real and what’s not – though it might be more helpful to concede that such AI systems have ‘fuzzy’ implicit world models, that are superpositions of all proper (...)
- Truth in Fiction.Franck Lihoreau (ed.) - 2010 - Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by (...)
- The Key to All Gaming Systems: Motionless Computing.Ilexa Yardley - 2025 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.Two Two-D Systems Equals One Zero-D System: Understanding Motionless Computing and The Motionless Computer called Mind (What it Has to Do with Sustainable Society Building).
- Defending Nihilism About Musical Works.Alexey Aliyev - 2025 - Philosophia 53 (1):347-365.According to nihilism, musical works do not exist. Platonism, on the other hand, states that they do exist—qua abstract objects of some sort. Given that denying the existence of musical works is rather counterintuitive, it does not come as a surprise that nihilism is considerably less popular than platonism. This is not to say that among ontologists, no one prefers nihilism. But an overwhelming majority of them are on the platonist side. Is this situation justified? Presumably, the answer is “yes” (...)
- Overview.D. W. Mertz - 2002 - Modern Schoolman 79 (2-3):99-106.
- Is there a plausible realist theory of fictional characters?Andrew Wynn Owen - 2024 - Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society 30:850-858.The debate between realists and anti-realists about fictional entities is important partly because it connects with debates about the nature of reference. According to the descriptivist model held by Fregeans, a name has reference to an object due to the connection of that name with a description, which is met by the relevant object. According to the causal-communicative model held by Millians, a name refers in virtue of a chain of reference linking that name to a referent. In the case (...)
- (1 other version)objects are (not) ...Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe - manuscriptnote: this is a by Cambridge Open Engage (C.O.E.) fixed version (now superseded by the version of May 25th, 2025) of my research paper 'objects are (not) ....', which I first posted February 17th, 2024 at researchgate and subsequently host at philarchive, academia and the internet archive. -/- Abstract: My goal in this paper is, to tentatively sketch and try defend some observations regarding the ontological dignity of object references, as they may be used from within in a formalized language. (...)
- Truth Without Truths.David Liggins - 2024 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. _Truth Without Truths_ applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and paradox, and explores how a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. -/- ¶ -/- David Liggins demonstrates that a strong case for nihilism about truth is available. The main grounds for taking nihilism on (...)
- Kandinsky on colors and the objectless vibrations.Dragos Grusea - 2024 - The Annals of the University of Bucharest - Philosophy Series (1):51-66.If we accept that Kandinsky developed a systematic theory of the fundamentals of painting, we must ask what is the central concept underlying this attempt. This paper argues for the thesis that objectless vibration plays a central role in the reconstruction proposed Kandinsky’s first book, ”Concerning the Spiritual in Art”. This kind of vibration includes as a virtual field both shapes, sounds and colors. All these “fall” in an organized way from the virtual vibrations, and the purpose of abstract painting (...)
- The Problem of Primordial Black Holes (and Force Carriers).Ilexa Yardley - 2024 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.Science depends upon the decimal system, and, for technological ‘calculations,’ science also depends upon the binary system. Where neither the decimal system nor the binary system is known at all by Nature. -/- .
- Immanence in Abundance.Chad Carmichael - 2022 - Erkenntnis 89 (4):1535-1553.In this paper, I develop a theory on which each of a thing’s abundant properties is immanent in that thing. On the version of the theory I will propose, universals are abundant, each instantiated universal is immanent, and each uninstantiated universal is such that it could have been instantiated, in which case it would have been immanent. After setting out the theory, I will defend it from David Lewis’s argument that such a combination of immanence and abundance is absurd. I (...)
- (1 other version)Objects are (not) ...Friedrich Wilhelm Grafe - 2024 - Archive.Org.[ first February 17, 2024, this release of May 25th, 2025 * ] -/- My goal in this paper is, to tentatively sketch and try defend some observations regarding the ontological dignity of object references, as they may be used from within in a formalized language [+] . -/- Hence I try to explore, what properties objects are presupposed to have, in order to enter the universe of discourse of an interpreted formalized language. -/- First I review Frege's analysis of (...)
- Fictional Names Revisited.Panu Raatikainen - 2023 - In _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 227–246.Several philosophers including Kripke have contended that fictional entities do exist as abstract objects, and fictional names refer to such abstract entities. Kripke and Thomasson compare fictional entities to existing social entities. Kripke also reflects on fictions inside fictions to support his view. Many philosophers appeal to the apparent fact that we quantify over fictional entities. Such arguments in favor of the existence of fictional entities are critically scrutinized. It is argued that they are much less compelling than their proponents (...)
- How to Change an Artwork.David Friedell - 2025 - In Alex King, Art and Philosophy: Essays at the Intersection. OUP.The question of how people change artworks is important for the metaphysics of art. It’s relatively easy for anyone to change a painting or sculpture, but who may change a literary or musical work is restricted and varies with context. Authors of novels and composers of symphonies often have a special power to change their artworks. Mary Shelley revised Frankenstein, and Tchaikovsky revised his Second Symphony. I cannot change these artworks. In other cases, such as those involving jazz standards and (...)Find it on Amazon.com (collection)Remove from this list Direct downloadExport citationBookmark 2 citations
- Solstice-Equinox.Ilexa Yardley - 2023 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.The explanation for everything in Nature, everything in human history, future, and-or, past, is the conservation of a circle, proven by, the circular-linear relationship between, the solstice and the equinox.
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