Meta Ontology

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• @incollection{Bjornsson2007-BJRIYB,booktitle = {Hommage \`a Wlodek. Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz},abstract = {Substantial metaphysical theory has long struggled with the question of negative facts, facts capable of making it true that Valerie isn't vigorous. This paper argues that there is an elegant solution to these problems available to anyone who thinks that there are positive facts. Bradley's regress and considerations of ontological parsimony show that an object's having a property is an affair internal to the object and the property, just as numerical identity and distinctness are internal to the entities that are numerically identical or distinct. For the same reasons, an object's lacking a property must be an affair internal to the object and the property. Negative facts will thus be part of any ontology of positive facts.},author = {Gunnar Bj\"ornsson},year = {2007},title = {If You Believe in Positive Facts, You Should Believe in Negative Facts},editor = {Jonas Josefsson Dan Egonsson and Toni R\onnow-Rasmussen Bj\"orn Petersson}}@

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• If You Believe in Positive Facts, You Should Believe in Negative Facts

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• 2007