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{{Short description|Philosophical view; modal Meinongianism}}
'''Noneism''', also known as '''modal Meinongianism'''<ref name="SEP"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Berto |first=Francesco |date=2008-10-01 |title=Modal Meinongianism for Fictional Objects |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12133-008-0033-z |journal=Metaphysica |language=en |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=205–218 |doi=10.1007/s12133-008-0033-z |issn=1874-6373}}</ref> (named after [[Alexius Meinong]]), is a theory in [[logic]] and [[metaphysics]]. It holds that some things do [[nonexistence|not exist]]. It was first coined by [[Richard Sylvan|Richard Routley]] in 1980 and appropriated again in 2005 by [[Graham Priest]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Routley | first = Richard | author-link = Richard Routley | title = Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond | publisher = Departmental Monograph #3, Department of Philosophy, RSSS, Australian National University | year = 1980 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Priest |first1=Graham |title=Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality. Second Edition |publisher=Clarendon |year=2016 |isbn=978-0198783602 |location=Oxford |author-link=Graham Priest}}</ref>
==Overview==
Noneism holds that some things do not exist. That is, we can quantify over [[non-existent object]]s ("items") using the so-called particular quantifier (also known—misleadingly in the view of noneists—as the [[existential quantifier]]). They also hold that "there is" is like "exist", rather than like the particular quantifier. Thus, they deny that ''there are'' things that do not exist. In this theory, there are no [[empty names]], wherefore the "problem of empty names" that afflicts many theories about names (in particular, [[Millianism]]), is not a problem at all.<ref name="SEP">{{cite SEP |url-id=nonexistent-objects/#OthWorStr |last= Reicher|first=Maria| title=Nonexistent Objects}}</ref>
While Priest also espouses [[dialetheism]], he maintains that his dialetheism is mostly capable of being separated from his noneism. The connection is that impossible objects may exist in impossible worlds, much as [[nonexistent objects]] may exist in possible (but not actual) worlds.
[[Richard Sylvan|Richard Routley]]'s book, ''Exploring Meinong's Jungle and Beyond: An Investigation of Noneism and the Theory of Items'', was published in 1980, while the first edition of Priest's book entitled ''Towards Non-Being: The Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality'' was published in 2005 (second revised edition in 2016).
==See also==
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*[[Abstract object theory]]
*[[Meinong's jungle]]
*[[Plato's beard]]
*[[Possible world]]
==References==
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