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R. Grossmann, The Categorical Structure of the World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1983. Pp. 431.
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1 Cf. also Wilson, F. ‘Acquaintance, Ontology, and Knowledge,’ The New Scholasticism 54 (1970) 1–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and ‘Effability, Ontology and Method,’ Philosophy Research Archives 9 (1983) 419-70.
2 Conversely, neither are properties reducible to classes. For greater detail on all this, see Grossmann's Ontological Reduction (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press 1973), esp. Part II.
3 See also Grossmann, Ontological Reduction, Part One.
4 See also Grossmann, Ontological Reduction, Part Three; and his ‘Structures, Functions, and Forms,’ in Schirn, M. ed., Studien zu Frege, vol. 2 (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Fromman 1976).Google Scholar
5 On the issue of modes of being, are there one or several?, see Grossmann's Phenomenology and Existentialism: An Introduction (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1984), Part III, ‘Martin Heidegger: “The Meaning of Being.“'
6 Cf. Grossmann, ‘Nonexistent Objects versus Definite Descriptions,’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy 62 (1984) 363-77; and also his Meinong (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul 1974).Google Scholar
7 Experiencing inCludes the kind of mental act through which we are conscious of the contents of our own minds.
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14 The same holds for negation and the three other one-place connectives that the truth-tables define, all 16 two-place connectives that the truth tables define, all 64 three-place connectives, all 224 four-place connectives, … , all 22n-place connectiveness, etc. Each of this infinity of further connective exists on Grossmann's view; but he chooses to ignore them. Just as he ignores, besides some unary quantifiers, all the binary, ternary, … , n-ary quantifiers. (For each n, there are 2(22n -1) n-ary quantificational modes.)
15 In a formula that Bergmann once used, there is nothing logical about logic. Cf. the discussion in Storer, T. ‘A Note on Empiricism,’ Philosophical Studies 4 (1953) 78CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hochberg, H. ‘Professor Storer on Empiricism,’ Philosophical Studies 5 (1954) 29–31CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Hochberg, H. ‘“Possible” and Logical Absolutism,“ Philosophical Studies 6 (1955) 74–6CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and also Wilson, ‘Effability, Ontology, and Method.'
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21 One who holds, as I believe Grossmann does, that the thesis of psychophysical parallelism correctly describes the mind-body relationship, ought to agree with this point; d. Wilson, ‘Marras on Sellars on Thought and Language.’
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