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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

There is another important condition to which Hume calls attention and which is interpreted by his clever disciple Meinong.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

Meinong does not regard this as a contradiction, but I fail to see that it is not one.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

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

But if Meinong is right, there can be no thought without an object: the connection of the two is essential.

From The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand

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