Document Type : Research

Authors

• Seyyed Mohammad Ali Hodjati ¹
• Hassan Hamtaii ²
• Lotfollah Nabavi ³

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tarbiat Modares University

² phd student of Philosophy (Logic), Tarbiat Modares University

³ Professor of Philosophy Department, Tarbiat Modares University

Abstract

According to Priest’s Modal Meinongianism, every condition expressible in language, characterizes some object(s) satisfying the very condition, either in the actual world or in some other world(s). Similar commitments of other Meinongians, to such an unrestricted principle of characterization (CP), provokes the emergence of the Clark paradox. We argue that the inter-world bleed of information within Priest’s system of logic may ground similar complications. We demonstrate how to secure the possibility of world-shift by employing internal resources of the noneist semantics. This results in triviality; far beyond contradiction. Priest has to put restrictions on the CP.
According to Priest’s Modal Meinongianism, every condition expressible in language, characterizes some object(s) satisfying the very condition, either in the actual world or in some other world(s). Similar commitments of other Meinongians, to such an unrestricted principle of characterization (CP), provokes the emergence of the Clark paradox. We argue that the inter-world bleed of information within Priest’s system of logic may ground similar complications. We demonstrate how to secure the possibility of world-shift by employing internal resources of the noneist semantics. This results in triviality; far beyond contradiction. Priest has to put restrictions on the CP.

Keywords

• Priest
• Characterization principle
• Modal Meinongianism
• Clark paradox
• Triviality