Are There Nonexistent Objects?

A tour through Meinong's Jungle. I offer private tutoring in philosophy. For details please email me: [email protected] Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kanebaker91 Donate to my PayPal: https://paypal.me/kanebaker91 My Discord: https://discord.gg/RUjwFdDDtK For further introductions, the SEP pages on nonexistent objects and existence are excellent: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nonexistent-objects https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/ Recent defenses of meinongianism include: Parsons 1980. "Nonexistent Objects" Priest 2005. "Towards Non-Being" Routley 1980. "Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond" 0:00 - Introduction 1:22 - Meinongianism 2:47 - A simple theory of meaning 5:43 - Apparent reference to nonexistents 11:50 - Reference to ideas? 17:05 - Negative existentials 20:46 - Russell's theory of descriptions 30:26 - "Existence is not a predicate" 35:44 - Existence vs being? 40:34 - "There is..." vs "there exists..." 49:09 - Occam's razor 51:28 - Characterization paradoxes 58:32 - Nuclear vs extra-nuclear properties