Barry Smith
THE ONTOLOGY OF REFERENCE:
STUDIES IN LOGIC AND
PHENOMENOLOGY
Dissertation
University of
Manchester
1976
PART ONE: THE THEORY OF MEANINGS (BEDEUTUNGSLEHRE)
Chapter One Variations on the Theory of Sense and Reference
Chapter Two Logic and Phenomenology: A Field of Problems
Chapter Three The Philosophy of Number
Chapter Four Essential Insight (at Arm’s Length)
Chapter Five Meanings-in-General vs. Objects-in-General: An Ontological Dichotomy
Chapter Six Meanings as Noemata: Husserl’s Generalisation of Linguistic Meaning to the Field of All Acts
PART TWO: THE THEORY OF OBJECTS (GEGENSTANDSLEHRE)
Chapter Seven Ontological Realism
Chapter Eight Stratification of the Universe of Objects
Chapter Nine Realism vs Abstraction Theory
Chapter Ten Towards a Generalised Ontological Theory of Higher Strata I: Meinong’s Attempt
Chapter Eleven Towards a Generalised Ontological Theory of the Objects of Higher Strata II: The Theory of Intentional Objects
Chapter Twelve: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Objecthood
Notes and List of Abbreviations