Nonexistent Objects -- Meinong and his critics
Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:30 pm's jungle was defended by , whose offered a more palatable variation of Meinong's Gegenstandstheorie, as explains:
If you ask "Where are the non-existent objects?" the answer is, "Each in its own possible world." The only trouble with that notorious thicket, Meinong's jungle, is that it has not been zoned, plotted and divided into manageable lots, better known as possible worlds.
—Hintikka, Jaakko, The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic, p. 40
If you ask "Where are the non-existent objects?" the answer is, "Each in its own possible world." The only trouble with that notorious thicket, Meinong's jungle, is that it has not been zoned, plotted and divided into manageable lots, better known as possible worlds.
—Hintikka, Jaakko, The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic, p. 40