This site is dedicated to the study of two arguments: the Development of Ontology from a philosophical perspective and its relations with the History of Logic. The main intellectual links from the major ontologists of Nineteenth century (Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano, and Gottlob Frege) to contemporary thinkers are traced in the Table of Ontologists; detailed information (bibliographies, abst...

Uriah Kriegel's Brentano's Philosophical System: Mind, Being, and Value is a good illustration of how fascinating subject the history philosophy can be. It contextualizes scrutinizes explains many ways in which it offers alternatives to currently dominant paradigms. Although book written spirit clearly sympathetic system, Kriegel up front about its weakness shortcomings. This not say, however, ...

Franz Peherstorfer was born in Zwettl an der Rodl, a village near Linz, the provincial capital of Upper Austria. After attending elementary and secondary schools in and around Linz, he matriculated in the newly founded Johannes Kepler Universität Linz1 in 1970 where he obtained his university degrees, Masters (1975) and Ph.D.2 (1977), both with summa cum laude. He was appointed as Assistent the...

This paper aims to present and evaluate Brentano's account of the individuation mental acts. In his early works, Brentano assimilated acts tropes; however, he encountered difficulties in explaining their individuation, since usual solutions for tropes were not readily applicable theory a later period, introduced into psychology what called “soul,” this allowed him explain Finally, after “reisti...

Two species of Australian Cyrtoscydmini were placed in the subgenus Magellanoconnus Franz of Sciacharis Broun: S. carinifrons (Franz) and S. kangarouana (Franz) (both originally described in Neuraphoconnus, a junior synonym of Magellanoconnus Franz). Examination of type specimens revealed that these species names, published in the same paper, are synonymous and S. carinifrons is here selected a...

Abstract There are two notions of intentionality: the first contains thesis that our acts thinking, judging and loving have a content; second mental about something external to act. Brentano uses term ‘intentionality’ only in relation notion; for him, intentionality does not function as bridge between mind world. Is it possible phenomenologist like give an account notion intentionality? It is a...

Time is a pervasive notion of high impact in information systems and computer science altogether. Respective understandings of the domain of time are fundamental for numerous areas, frequently in combination with closely related entities such as events, changes, and processes. The conception and representation of time entities and reasoning about temporal data and knowledge are thus significant...