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AGAINST AGAINST NONBEING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2011

GRAHAM PRIEST
GRAHAM PRIEST*
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne, University of St Andrews, and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
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*DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. g.priest@unimelb.edu.au
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Abstract

Towards Non-Being (Priest [2005]) develops an account of the semantics of intentional predicates and operators. The account appeals to objects, both existent and non-existent, and worlds, both possible and impossible. This paper formulates replies to a number of the more interesting objections to the semantics that have been proposed since the book was published.

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Research Article
Information
The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 237 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2011

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