Index
actuality 73–4, 76–7, 104, 105, 106, 108
Adams, Robert 190, 191
adverbialism 99–100, 185
analogates 52;see alsoanalogous properties;
analogue instances
analogical expressions 16–18, 22, 31
analogous properties 48, 49–54, 56–60, 139,
203, 249– 51
analogue instances 52, 53–4, 57, 139, 203,
250 – 1
analogy
of attribution 16, 49
of inequality 2, 49
without focal point 50–4, 58
Aquinas, Thomas
on analogical expressions 16– 17
on being-in 65
on being not a genus 3, 7–8, 119
on beings of reason 150–3, 201, 258
on categories as ways of being 123– 3
on divine simplicity 2, 42– 4
on essence 258, 275
on modes of being, overlapping 36, 117
Aristotle
on being-in 65– 6
on being not a genus 3, 7–8, 30–1, 119
on being said in many ways 2, 15, 22,
213 – 15
on categories as ways of being 123, 135
on essence 258, 269– 70
on focal meaning 15, 26
on ontological superiority 215–16, 234
on relatives 36, 117, 155, 215–16, 217
Armstrong, D. M. 166, 200– 2
A-theory 79, 89, 97, 103, 287
Augustine 79, 89
Auriol, Peter 157
Averroes 65
Avicenna 262, 275
Barnes, Elizabeth 287
Barnes, Jonathan 62
Baumgarten, Alexander 65, 242, 252
being-by-courtesy 147–8, 156, 160, 161, 168;
see alsobeings by courtesy
being, general concept of 7, 18–20, 22–3,
27, 31, 38
being-in 64–8, 141, 143–5, 157, 237, 283
beings of reason 152–60, 167, 171–2, 201, 258,
274;see alsobeing-true
beings by courtesy
distinguished from beings of reason 151– 3
examples of 154–60, 176, 226, 232– 3
grounded in genuine beings 166–8, 203, 228
lack strict essences 258– 61
not cognized by God 171– 2
perfectly natural quantifier expressions do
not quantify over 147–50, 161– 2
persons as 160, 174, 190, 193
being-there 63, 64, 68
being-true 151, 152, 201;see alsobeings of reason
Bolzano, Bernard 38, 121, 242, 252
Bosanquet, Bernard 66, 90, 175
Bradley, F. H. 175, 190
Brentano, Franz 15, 16, 111, 123, 173– 4
Bricker, Phillip 73–4, 105, 106–7, 121, 126, 127
B-theory 79, 86
Calkins, Mary Whiton 175
Cameron, Ross 105–6, 150
category mistakes 111, 128–34, 232, 268
causal pluralism 51, 168
central (focal) specifications 50, 52, 58, 249
comparable relations 212, 216–17, 236
compositional pluralism 17–18, 28, 57–9, 68,
167 – 8, 226–7, 249
Coombs, Jeffrey 155– 6
correctness 173–4, 191
Correia, Fabrice 247
counterpart theory 127, 289
cut-off point problem 120–2, 125
Dasein
andExistenz18, 23, 26, 28, 177– 8
full reality of 177– 8
strict essence of 277–9, 280
Dasgupta, Shamik 238, 245–6, 259, 266– 8
degrees of being 4–5, 86–7, 141, 145, 146–54,
164, 195–222, 224, 229–38, 251– 5
defined in terms of naturalness 149, 199
used to define naturalness 203–4, 205
Degrees Presentism 80, 85–9, 142
Descartes, Rene 2, 20, 65, 74, 261, 263, 270–1, 280
determinates and determinables 3, 23, 139,
249 – 51
all equally natural 52, 180, 206, 250– 1
quantitative 198, 251
related by specifications 49–50, 52
differentiating characteristics 3, 7–8, 31
divine simplicity 6, 8, 42–4, 273–4, 279