Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality

Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-205

  Priest, Graham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fictional objects; Impossible world; Intentionality; Mathematical objects; Non existent object; Noneism; Possible world; Richard Routley (Sylvan); Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921979166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199262543.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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