Meinong's jungle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The repository of nonexistent objects (thought to have some form of existence because they can be referred to), in the ontology of Alexius Meinong.

Word forms

Meinong's jungle

Etymology

Coined by Richard Routley in 1980.

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