Lotze, Hermann 2–3, 63, 89, 176
Lowe, E. J. 228, 244, 256, 260, 288
Łukasiewicz, Jan 90
McTaggart, J. M. E. 175, 177, 197
Markosian, Ned 71– 2
Meinong, Alexius 3, 7, 37–9, 63, 66, 70, 84, 98,
111, 156–7, 176, 263
Meinongianism 37–9, 84, 85, 102, 126, 143,
156 – 7, 281, 287
Meinongian presentism 79, 84–5, 87, 88, 142
mere disjunctions 5, 27, 31, 34, 51–4, 207,
214 – 15, 249– 51
mere negations 5
mere restrictions 28, 31
Merricks, Trenton 180
metaphysically empty names 39
metaphysically ideal language 30, 31, 39, 40, 41,
131 – 5, 148, 288
minimal Meinongian presentism (MMP) 85,
97, 98, 101, 143, 203
modal realism 69, 73, 102, 156
modes of being
absolute vs. relative 63–4, 75, 77, 87, 100,
145 – 6, 157
best 213
central (focal) 26
monism
existence 155
grounding,seegrounding monism
ontological 140–1, 233
priority 155, 229
Moore, G. E. 3
Moore, Jared Sparks 74, 79
Nāgārjuna 159–60, 174
necessitarianism 75
nihilism
compositional 31–2, 33, 37, 155, 254
ontological 159– 60
nominalism 27, 56, 199, 200
extreme 125, 204– 5
moderate 204– 5
set 113– 14
no-self doctrine 174–5, 190
notational variant hypothesis (NVH) 196,
206 – 9, 211, 218, 220
nowness 103, 107
Okrent, Mark 14
ontological categories
generality accounts of 117, 118– 22
identity accounts of 117–18, 122, 126– 7
intersubstitutability accounts of 117, 118
Westerhoff’s account of 113– 17
ontological dependence 8, 63, 118, 136,
252, 260
ontological monism 140–1, 233
ontological pluralism
minimal formulation of 34, 146, 199
neo-Aristotelian/Heideggerian version of 34,
55, 146–7, 149
and truth-making 92
ontological realism 28–31, 32
ontological superpluralism 46
orders of being 4–5, 60–8, 77, 141, 203, 213,
215 – 16, 224, 229– 38
defined 87
parochialism 153– 4
Paul, L. A. 118, 120, 125
perdurantism 42, 97–8, 99, 182– 4
personalism 175, 177
Plato 2, 14, 63, 198, 234
pluralism
causal 51, 168
compositional,seecompositional pluralism
grounding,seegrounding pluralism
identity 22, 51–2, 168
ontological,seeontological pluralism
possibilia 69, 73–4, 76–7, 84, 100, 117, 121, 126,
127, 155–6, 287
possibilism 73–5, 76, 286– 7
present centrism 93– 6
presentism 78, 79, 80–1, 83, 85, 89, 94–5,
101, 186
truth-maker argument against 80, 87, 90–3,
94 – 7
presentist existential pluralism (PEP)
defined 80– 4
and Degree Presentism 85– 9
and endurantism 99–102, 186
and Meinongian presentism 84– 5
not subject to truth-making objections
91 – 3
and perdurantism 97– 8
and present centerism 95– 7
skeptical argument against 102– 8
presentness-at-hand (extantness) 7, 18, 19, 24,
33, 177
principles of recombination 111–12, 121, 127,
128, 133
Prior, A. N. 89
priority monism 155, 229
properties
analogous,seeanalogous properties
haecceitistic,seehaecceities
merely disjunctive,seemere disjunctions
qualitative,seequalitative properties
topic-neutral,seetopic neutrality
ultimate 230–1, 233, 243, 254
uninstantiated 206, 219
pros henequivocality 15–17, 22
Punch, John 155– 6