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Meinong

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[mahy-nawng] / ˈmaɪ nɔŋ /

noun

  1. Alexius 1853–1920, Austrian psychologist and philosopher.


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Every month, the original Meinong branch holds a social event where foreign wives gather to cook, gossip and plan events.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 2010

The reference of thoughts to objects is not, I believe, the simple direct essential thing that Brentano and Meinong represent it as being.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

Meinong meets this difficulty by saying that some beliefs are falsely thought to be self-evident, but in the case of others it is self-evident that they are self-evident, and these are wholly reliable.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

In this view I now think I was mistaken, and Meinong is right.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

The content, Meinong argues, must not be confounded with the object, since the content must exist in my mind at the moment when I have the thought, whereas the object need not do so.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

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