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By Bruno Leclercq, Sebastien Richard, Denis Seron
Which entities may be approved as a part of the furnishings of the area, and which no longer? What are "pseudo-objects," in the event that they are usually not correctly items? This assortment explores the solutions given to those questions via a few key philosophers through the twentieth century. It brings jointly essays by way of prime students on a subject matter of imperative value to either metaphysics and the historical past of philosophy.
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Premise 2 is perhaps not self-evident, but let us grant it for the sake of argument. The crucial transition is to statement 5. Brentano’s idea is that if we could think about objects other than things, since we also think about things, this would make “think about” and thereby “think” equivocal, contradicting premise 2. Formally speaking, this is a terrible argument. Here is an argument reproducing the form of 2-5: 2a. “eat” is univocal. 3a. To eat is to eat something. 4a. therefore: 5a. Whatever we eat is an apple.
Brentano’s final ontology is thus unfinished and unsystematic, although many of its basic positions and themes are fairly clear. So in this study I shall be concerned less with the way in which Brentano came to his views, which I still find puzzling, than with the question whether they, or something close to them, can be considered adequate as an ontology. 2 There are Things By a thing, Brentano understands an entity which is particular, unrepeatable, and persisting through time. That there is at least one such thing is regarded by Brentano as evident via introspection.
There are several kinds of change. One is motion, or change of position. We postpone consideration of this until later. Another is existential change, coming to be and ceasing to be. Here the reist is at no disadvantage over others, since it is the coming to be and ceasing to be of things that is principally of interest. The more interesting and challenging types of change are: qualitative change, quantitative change, and relational change. Qualitative change is the most straightforward. Consider for example a tomato, which as it ripens changes in colour from green to yellow to orange to red.