The ontological theorem.

Ontological Models for Quantum Mechanics and the Kochen-Specker theorem

Certain concrete “ontological models” for quantum mechanics (models in which measurement outcomes are deterministic and quantum states are equivalent to classical probability distributions over some space of ‘hidden variables’) are examined. The models are generalizations of Kochen and Specker’s such model for a single 2-dimensional system in particular a model for a three dimensional quantum s...

The Ontological Presuppositions of the Ontological Argument*

JLhe most recent stage in the analysis of St. Anselm's Ontologi cal Argument is the modal-logical stage : if one wants to get clear as to what is wrong (or right) with it, one should phrase it in S5.1 I have misgivings about this maneuver, if it is claimed in the name of historical exegesis. While I think that the connnections between the Ontological Argument and modal logic are insightful and ...

The Ontological Attitude

Revisiting the Ontological Square

Considerations regarding predication in ordinary language as well as the ontology of relations suggest a refinement of the Ontological Square, a conceptual scheme used in many foundational ontologies and which consists of particular substrates as well as their types on the one hand and particular attributes as well as their types on the other hand. First, the distinction between particulars and...

Generation of the Ahlfors Five Islands Theorem