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Terminology: This section explains special features of the language used by the individual authors. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Uwe Meixner on Terminology - Dictionary of Arguments
I, 43f Tropics: individual properties as basic building blocks of reality - then no accidentals but substances. >Accidens, >Substance. Vs: linguistic determinations surpassed, "revisionary" ontology: must depict language as irrelevant. >Ontology. I 45 Group individual: e.g. "the first three chancellors" - constituents: all possible combinations - but: Adenauer's head part of Adenauer, but not a (constitutive) part of the group. >Constitution, >Mereology, cf. >Sets, >Set Theory, >Comprehension. I 56f Def INDIVIDUAL/Meixner: individual-like objects: Example "the round square", but also e.g., Sherlock Holmes, fictitious persons and their parts of the body, of which it cannot be said whether they have certain properties or not - "the man who knew that he knew nothing": not Socrates, but INDIVIDUAL (overdetermined: knowledge/ignorance). >Fiction, >Knowledge, >Predication, >Attribution, >Individuals/Meixner. I 56 Def (initial property-wise) complete: e.g. numbers: we cannot say that they smile or do not smile. >Numbers, >Nonsensical. I 57 Def initial property-wise maximally consistent/Meixner: entities that are ee ee complete and not ee overdetermined - Def maximally consistent/Wessel: (external): a set of formulas that are consistent and no further consistent formulas exist. That is, that any addition of another formula makes the set inconsistent. >Overdetermination, >Consistency, >Properties/Meixner. Def maximally consistent/Meixner: of every individual property, the INDIVIDUAL contains either that one itself or its negation. >Continuous determination/Kant._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Mei I U. Meixner Einführung in die Ontologie Darmstadt 2004 |