Download or read book Nonexistent Objects written by Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics Terence Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Terence Parsons revives the older tradition of taking such objects at face value. Using various modern techniques from logic and the philosophy of language, he formulates a metaphysical theory of nonexistent objects. The theory is given a formalization in symbolism rich enough to contain definite descriptions, modal operators, and epistemic contexts, and the book includes a discussion which relates the formalized theory explicitly to English.