qualia 181–6, 187
qualitative properties 94, 127, 143, 146, 181,
187, 188, 189, 193– 4
quantification
absolutely unrestricted 35– 6
generic unrestricted 11, 23–7, 28–31,
32 – 3, 34, 39, 126, 146–9, 161, 199,
202, 212–13, 277
higher-order 40– 1
maximally unnatural 205
over non-existents 37– 9
perfectly natural 28–33, 36, 38, 40, 55, 72, 82,
85, 88, 91, 97, 101, 122, 126, 131, 142,
148 – 9, 199
plural 39–40, 71
polyadic 217, 218–19, 237
semantically primitive 25–6, 29, 31, 33, 34,
36, 42, 44, 55
restricted 11, 24–5, 26, 28–9, 33–5, 82,
161, 285
with overlapping domains 36–7, 126
quantifier variantism 13, 32–3, 37, 67, 254
Quasisein 38, 39
Quine, W. V. O. 3, 92
Ratnakīrti 167
readiness-to-hand 7, 18, 24, 177
Reinach, Adolf 63
Ross, W. D. 7– 8
Russell, Bertrand 3, 4, 36, 63, 70, 176
Ryle, Gilbert 22, 30, 109, 128–30, 133
Schaffer, Jonathan 155, 164, 166, 167, 218, 223,
224, 225, 228, 229–32, 233–4, 236, 242,
243, 252
Schiffer, Stephen 157– 8
Scotus, Duns 2, 74
Shields, Christopher 123, 213– 16
Sider, Theodore
argument against
entity-fundamentalism 220– 1
ontological realism 28, 31, 32–3, 39, 81
on naturalness 27, 49, 55, 148, 173, 199, 211,
218, 228, 233
on perdurance 61
truth-maker objection 91
Sidgwick, Henry 89
Skiles, Alexander 241
Smith, Quentin 85–7, 88– 9
Solomyak, Olla 100– 1
Sommer’s Law 115–17, 126
Sorensen, Roy 140, 198
Sosa, Ernest 67
Sosein 143, 157, 263
species 3, 7–8, 41
specifications 49–50, 51, 52, 53, 58, 77, 249– 51
specific and individual existence 41– 5
Spinoza, Baruch 234, 263
Sprigge, Timothy 79
Stebbing, L. Susan 3
Stein, Edith 3, 90, 123
stuff ontology 71–2, 115
Suárez, Francisco 54, 74, 152–3, 154, 160, 167,
168, 171–2, 201, 258
subsistence 3, 4, 7, 18, 19, 22, 24–6, 37–9, 63,
149, 159–60, 176
substantial form 269, 270–3, 275
systematically variable axiomatic feature 58, 59,
60, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 84, 250
systematic variable polyadic feature 57, 58, 59,
60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 75, 76, 250
tense logic 72–3, 83, 84, 107
Thomasson, Amie 116, 158–9, 164, 166
topic neutrality 50–1, 57–8, 59
and entity-grounding 224
and formal logic 76, 137
and formal ontology 135, 137, 260
and parthood 57, 59
transcendental freedom 191– 3
transparency 107– 8
truth-maker principle 91– 3
ultimate properties 230–1, 233, 243, 254
uninstantiated properties 206, 219
universalism, compositional 31–2, 33, 37, 254
van Inwagen, Peter 22–3, 25, 26, 27, 28, 134
Westerhoff, Jan 113–20, 122, 125–6, 138
Williamson, Timothy 80, 93– 4
Wilson, Jessica 223, 235, 239–43, 249