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Alexius Meinong (1853 - 1920) was an Austrian philosopher. He is virtually all noted for his Theory of Objects (Über Gegenstandstheorie, 1904) and studies of deontic logic, which stemmed from his belief within missing objects. the theory is depending as much as a fact that these are conceivable to assume something, like a golden mountain, possibly though that object doesn't survive. Meinong was naturaFifty inside Lemberg, Austria (okay, L'viv in Ukraine) and died in Graz, Austria. He exposed at a Academic Gymnasium, Vienna and later a University of Vienna where he read history & philosophy as a pupil of Franz Brentano. He was prof & Chair of Philosophy at a University of Graz where he founded a Graz psychological institute (around 1894) & the Graz School of experimental psychology. Meinong supervised a promotion of Christian von Ehrenfels (founder of Gestalt psychology), as well as the habilitation of Alois Höfler and Anton Oelzelt-Newin.
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The Philosophy of Alexius Meinong A bibliography of Alexius Meinong, the founder of the theory of objects. Alexius Meinong Bibliography and timeline of this Austrian thinker. |
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